Kids Are Not Mini Adults

Learn how kids are different in terms of anatomy, injuries and management

Growth tissue creates different injuries and require different management. Are you confident in knowing when a child can play with pain and when they should not? Do you know when it is safe to introduce stretching in adolescents and when it is not? Do you know how to assess maturation and understand how it impacts injury risk? This course will give you the awareness of injuries in junior athletes, how to safely support them and educate them to avoid a recurrence.

Why do some kids get injured, yet others don't?

The same training session can be easy for one, but injure another

Learn about why injuries occur and how to assess how much is too much. Discover how to recognise Relative energy Deficiency In Sports and why good nutrition is a key ingredient in protecting athletes against stress fractures.
Find out why kids get injured

How to boost capacity in young athletes

Education is key to reducing injuries

Understanding the physical and mental demands on young athletes is essential to reduce their risk of injury. Through education, you can teach kids how to increase their battery to be able to tolerate more and perform at their best.
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Learning outcomes

This course is designed for cricket coaches and sports and exercise professionals working with young cricketers

  • To be able to understand the differences between adults and children

  • To recognise children at different stages of maturation

  • To be able to recognise the risk factors for injuries in young athletes

  • To be able to understand the injuries that affect young athletes

  • To be able to recognise signs of overtraining and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. How to get the most out of the course

    3. Course handout

    1. How are kids different to adults

    1. Why do injuries occur?

    2. Why do some kids get injured, yet others don't?

    3. Let's Talk About Why Injuries Occur

    1. When do kids stop being kids

    2. Youth athlete anatomy

    3. The adolescent growth spurt

    4. Assessing maturation

    5. Biobanding children by maturation not age

    6. How to calculate predicted adult height

    7. Timing of skeletal ossification

    8. Let's talk about growth and maturation ebook

    1. Growing Pains

    2. Growth plate injuries

    3. Epiphyseal Injuries

    4. Avulsion injuries

    5. Apophysitis

    6. Patellofemoral pain

    7. Management of growth related injuries

    8. When it is not growing pains

    9. 10 things not to miss in a child

    10. Kids Back 2 Sport athlete and parent resources

    1. Low Energy Availability

    2. Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (RED-s_)

    3. IOC Consensus statement on RED-s

    4. Management of RED-s

    5. Let's Talk About Low Energy Availability ebook

About this course

  • £49.00
  • 40 lessons
  • 4 hours of video content

Instructor

Youth Athlete Consultant Physio Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson is an experienced Youth Athlete Consultant physiotherapist dedicated to transforming the care of young athletes. With over 35 years of experience, she is on a mission to raise awareness that young athletes are not simply "mini adults" with unique anatomy and physiology which demands specialised approaches to injury prevention and rehabilitation. She has worked with national teams, Premier League football clubs, within county cricket, schools, and helped thousands of children return safely to sport following injury. She is the creator of Kids Back 2 Sport, a trusted information platform providing evidence-based guidance for parents, coaches, and teachers and a directory of experienced youth athlete health professionals to help get injured athletes safely back to sport. A passionate educator, Angela regularly shares her extensive knowledge and experience through workshops, conferences, and courses to raise the standard of care for younger athletes. Angela is the author of the highly acclaimed online and in person courses Kids Back 2 Sport: Assessment, Diagnosis and Return to Play in Youth Athletes. For nearly two decades she has consulted for the Cheshire Cricket Board, developing Ready 4 Cricket a unique online injury prevention programme and authored a chapter on “The Prevention of Lumbar Stress Fractures” in the recently released book Cricket Sports Medicine.