Team Sports Injuries

[geffric]

Thank you...he is healing. Because of his age and the fact that he is still growing, they think his arm will heal properly without surgery. He has to go for weekly x-rays, and if the bones begin to show any signs of shifting, he will need surgery. He is so disappointed. He didn't shed one tear until they said he was out for the rest of the football season. On the bright side, everyone has been so good to him....the school, the coaches, his teammates, and (more to his happiness than mine) the girls!

glad he is healing and getting the proper TLC..


The trainer calls us when it is serious like meet him in the emergercy room.or do you wanna take him or should we call the ambulance since the bleeding has stopped..... rest of the time we find out when he gets home..
so no they dont call unless it is serious..

 

[LilyWDW]

Two of my friends are athletic trainers at the high school level. They also cover some sports for the Junior High kids (7th and 8th grade here). The only time they talk to the parents about an injury is if a visit to the doctor is needed or if it was a head injury. Something like a sprained ankle or pulled muscle would be treated there and the student is told what to do. If they have any questions after the fact or the parents need clarification they have an email they can send questions to or see them after the next practice.

I actually did student athletic training for my high school teams. It required coming in super early to take classes that were beyond the normal curriculum.
I did this because I had suffered a knee injury and was no longer able to play soccer at that level, but I still wanted to be a part of it.

What FireDancer wrote is how things were treated. We did not contact or talk to parents unless it was an injury we thought needed further medical attention. If we called for every little sprain/strain/cut then we would not have time to do anything else. Head injuries, deep cuts, broken bones... those were what we called on. Otherwise, we told the student what they needed to do (ice/tape/ect).

 

[mjkacmom]

At that age, unless my child was so severely injured that they were unable to place a call themselves, I would not expect a call from the coach.

This. I start dropping my kids off at practices around second grade, and have yet to get a call from a coach (and yes, my kids have gotten hurt - ds12 got hit by a ball on his nose a few years back, blood gushed all over, and he had 2 black eyes for days - he continued to practice). If the coach needs to call 911, I would expect I'd be the second call however.

 

[carone0318]

Like most others have said, it really depends on the injury. My dd is a competitive gymnast and spends 4 hrs at a time at the gym, 5 days a week. I am not going to sit there and watch the entire practice. For most injuries that there is minor concern, the coach will talk to the parent at the end of practice and say this or that happened. I've been called to pick up twice. Once the coach thought she suffered a minor concussion, asked me to come pick her up, she explained what happened and excused her from practice for the weekend (it happened on a Friday.)

The last call I got, coach said she landed wrong doing a tumbling pass on floor and thinks she might have broke her ankle or foot. I came in, coach helped me get her to the car and off we went to the hospital. She ended up having a Jones' fracture and it took 4 months to heal.

Injury is part of the sport (as with most others too) and for the most part major injuries are rare. I like how things work in our gym so all's good in my book!

 

[PatsMom]

My daughter did five years of volleyball and six years of track. During those years she was injured more than a few times! The athletic trainers regularly taped her up for all sports because of the plantar fascitis in her feet. She tried saving all her athletic tape one year and it was a huge ball!

She also suffered through bursitis, tendonitis and a torn bicep. The athletic trainer did speak with us when he benched her for volleyball for the shoulder problems - she hadn't mentioned how much pain she was in. She ended up in a few months of physical therapy but was back playing as soon as the worst of the inflammation was gone. And I am probably the worst mother in the world but I scheduled her physical therapy after school so she could walk there and we only had to pick her up. Or since it was a school related injury the coach did get her a pass to take the late bus so if the timing was right she could get back to school for that and save us 40 miles of driving!

I never expected a call unless the injury were severe enough to require immediate attention at an emergency room. Otherwise, she was expected to tell me about an injury when she got home. I went to most games but almost never to practice. And I can remember a few kids being helped onto the bus with minor strains/sprains, etc. Wouldn't be practical to call parents not there since we are pretty remote and most meets/games were 40 to 100 miles away from home and the child's regular doctor.