from the journal Sports Medicine
Soccer has grown rapidly in popularity in
this country, especially amoung children.
Children are also susceptible to different
soccer injuries than adults, so an
international team of experts developed a
warm-up program especially for children.
A review in the journal Sports Medicine
found after one season the twenty-minute
program with seven warm-up exercises—
called 11 + Kids--showed a reduction in
injuries of almost one-half compared to a
group of young soccer players who went
about normal warm-ups. The rate of
severe injuries fell by a much as seventyfour
percent. The review shows an
appropriate warm-up program, performed
at least once per week by young soccer
players may prevent a large percentage of
injuries.