Jumping Clinic
The jumping clinic focuses on female athletes with ACL knee and lower extremity injuries. The six-week clinic is based in part on recent studies/clinical trials that demonstrate a much higher incidence of knee injuries among female athletes compared to men.
Women are at greater risk for severe injuries. These jumping training methods can significantly reduce the likelihood of injuries and re-injuries among female athletes. Studies show this type of training brings the risk of injury for women more in line with the risk that men experience.
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- Studies have shown that female athletes are four to six times more likely to be injured while participating in jumping and cutting sports than male athletes.
- It's estimated that 1 in 10 female athletes will experience knee related, jumping injuries, or roughly 10,000 knee injuries in female athletes at the college level during any given year.
- Differences between male and female hamstring and quadriceps muscle development and use may account for the additional risk.
- The cost of treatment for these athletes is many millions of dollars each year. The cost of orthopedic care, including ACL reconstruction and rehabilitation for these athletes, is estimated at $17,000 per patient.
- These costs don't include the traumatic effect of the injuries on the athlete, potential loss of entire seasons of sports participation, loss of scholarship funds, and ensuing effects on athletes' mental health and academic performance.
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- The jumping clinics incorporate flexibility, proper body mechanics, and weight training to increase muscle strength and decrease landing forces. Similar programs have proven to decrease potentially dangerous landing forces by decreasing improper alignment at the knee (adduction vs. abduction) and increasing hamstring muscle power.
Results have been dramatic in previous studies with a reduction of peak landing forces by as much as 22% and a corresponding increase in vertical jump height by approximately 10%, reducing the likelihood of new injuries and improving athletic performance.
In one high school study, untrained female athletes had an injury rate 3.6 times higher than the trained group and 4.8 times greater than the male control group. The trained group showed an injury incidence only 1.3 times higher than the male control group.
In some cases, physicians are requiring female athletes to complete this six- week jumping training course prior to signing off on their return to sports participation.
For more information on Jumping Clinic cost and schedules, call 360.514.2048.
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