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Warm-ups Help Prevent Sports Injuries
Posted by Fred Hardinge on
Warm-ups before practice cut female high school sports injuries by 67%.
Pre-practice warm-ups paid large dividends in female high school soccer and basketball players. When coaches started practice with a prescribed set of warm-up exercises for 20 minutes before practice, noncontact lower-extremity injuries dropped 67% compared to standard warm-ups. These exercises focused on strength, balance, elasticity and agility. This intervention was very economical, too.
PositiveTip: Appropriate warm-up exercises can help reduce the risk of exercise-induced injuries at all ages.
Benefits of Starting School Later in the Morning
Posted by Gary Hopkins on
In the 1997-98 school year, the Minneapolis School District changed the starting time of its seven high schools to 8:40 AM. and the dismissal time to 3:20 PM. Prior to the change, classes began at 7:15 AM and dismissed at 1:45 PM. Researchers evaluated the student benefits, after this change in hours had been in place for five years.
Attendance rates improved for all 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students in the district. The greatest rate of improvement was for 9th grade students.
The Potential Problem of Kids & Gambling
Posted by Gary Hopkins on
Have you noticed that gambling is now treated like a sport?
Take a minute to go to the ESPN web site and search for the term “poker”. You'll find that ESPN Poker, is an entire section devoted to the game. Times sure have changed! Not long ago, very few people would have considered poker (a form of gambling) to be classified as a sport.