Forty Years Later - The Unintended Consequence of Title IX Legislation

No one could predict in 1972 that female athlete non-contact ACL (knee) injuries would be a major sports medicine challenge forty years later. This challenge does not have to happen and the 'silent epidemic' can be minimized with safe and age-appropriate training for all female athletes, not just the elite athletes. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) March 20, 2012 - Warren Potash wrote They're Not Boys - Safely Training the Adolescent Female Athlete™ to help parents and teen female athletes understand that young female athletes have a higher risk of injury, why the risk exists, and that proper lower body training can minimize the risk.

Since the introduction of Title IX legislation almost 40 years ago with the objective of leveling the playing field for female athletes, the unintended consequence of female non-contact ACL (knee) injuries have become what researchers and health care professionals call the "silent epidemic."

• Adolescent female athletes suffer non-contact ACL (knee) injuries at an alarmingly high rate. Tim Hewett, Ph. D., a leading researcher helping understand the female athlete's challenges says: …if you are afraid that your daughter or your athlete might get into trouble, train her. Number one, it's going to decrease her likelihood of injury… Number two, it's going to make her a better athlete.
• Dr. Edward Wojtys, a leading orthopedic surgeon and researcher, says that female ACL injuries are becoming a public health challenge.
• A leading trainer at a Division I women's basketball program says: I can't undo motor learning from youth at the collegiate level. We need to train young female athletes before they get to college.

Since 1995, Warren Potash has trained more than 600 adolescent female athletes in every sport and cheering with remarkable success. A significant reduction in injuries occurs when female athletes participate in safe and age-appropriate training and every trained female increases her self confidence and athleticism.

Mr. Potash, Specialist in Exercise Therapy and Sports Nutrition, describes the need for a sea change in thinking to help all of our youngsters stay healthy. He describes how neuromuscular training minimizes the current too high rate of injury for female athletes and offers more than 50 evidence-based conclusions from leading researchers supporting his statements. The next big step for females is valuing training to play sports as the foundation for skills training for all female athletes, not just the elite athletes. "Look Inside" They're Not Boys… at: http://www.amazon.com/Theyre-Not-Boys-Adolescent-AthleteTM/dp/1461166144.

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