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    Parents De Quervain's tenosynovitis

    Sorry for the late reply. The view of all involved in treating her (doctor, physio and orthopedic surgeon) was that given the length of conservative treatment and the wide range of treatment tried, she would not have benefitted from cortisone. I hope it works for your daughter!
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    Parents De Quervain's tenosynovitis

    My ODD (not a gymnast) developed De Quervain's in both hands at the age of 14/15 in 2019. It was caused and/or aggravated by playing the violin. She was never a high hours player, maybe 6 hours a week at most. After none of the conservative treatment methods worked, she had surgery to widen...
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    Parents Spondylolysis - and a huge thank you to the Chalkbucket Community

    Thank you, and good luck to your daughter as well! It is always nice to hear from other parents and gymnasts in the same boat.
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    Parents Spondylolysis - and a huge thank you to the Chalkbucket Community

    She will be doing a six week rehabilitation course which will include 2 sessions a week with a biokineticist and physiotherapist and loads of home exercise on the other days. She has also been cleared to do gymnastics, avoiding impact and hyperextension for now and concentrating on engaging her...
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    Parents Spondylolysis - and a huge thank you to the Chalkbucket Community

    Our daughter (12) started complaining about back pain (more like a twinge to be precise) when doing punch fronts last week. Thanks to Chalkbucket and what I have read here about back issues we took her to the doctor on Tuesday. The radiologist noted that she has spondylolysis on the left side of...
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    Parents Can your kid just come to your car after practice?

    At our gym a coach stays outside with the kids until their parents fetch them. This is also for road safety and they allow older kids to walk to parents' cars as long as they can see the parent or whoever is allowed to pick up the child.
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    Parents Help I shrunk my gymnasts competition leotard!!!

    We have a mom at our gym that wets the leos and then her kids put them on while wet to stretch them. Full disclosure: I have not tried this, but she has done it often and it looks fine...
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    Parents Ugh, the struggles continue. Need help/advice

    I agree with @NutterButter. My DD (11) is also very sensitive to non-verbal cues and a negative coaching (or teaching in school) style is completely useless with her. She is the type that will think "stuff you - I don't care anyway" instead of "I will show you that you're wrong". She also has...
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    Off Topic Let's share nicknames!

    Our Gym Owner and Boys Head Coach are constantly dreaming up new nicknames for the gymnasts. My DD is very flexible so he often calls her Spaghetti or Rubber Band when they're stretching. She calls herself Skinny Legend. We got a SUV 18 months ago. The first time her dad took her to school in...
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    WAG Interesting meet reactions

    Weirdest thing I ever experienced at a meet: Second rotation, judging beam, with 14 - 17 year old level 3s. So beginners but high school kids. Coach came to the table to request permission for the gymnast to leave the floor because she had her leotard on back to front. Neither gymnast nor coach...
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    Parents Other activities and worry

    @Tmacs, I hear you. So this happened... DD was invited to a party at an ice rink the week before her provincial meet. We talked about the ice skating (something she doesn't do often) and decided together that she would attend the party, but not skate. The morning of the party she dropped down...
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    Parents School Performance

    We are in South Africa and have often laughed about YDD's marks in physical life orientation (our version of PE :rolleyes:) When they can do tumbling and bars and vault and beam, but gets a needs improvement for balance, spatial awareness, etc.
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    WAG YouTube gymnasts

    We have become big Chellsie Memmel fans. My child is in awe of her comeback. DD (11) doesn't follow anyone else, although we watch some other gymnastics together - World Champs, Olympics, Rhythmic, T&T competitions. I follow Whitney simply because I think she is super gutsy and I really hope...
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    Parents Gym Communication and Coaches

    I would let her try a class at another gym, since she is open to it. My personal choice would never be a gym that is so busy that you can't get into classes and where my child feels overlooked. If you are in an area where there are other options it really can't hurt to try other gyms. If you...
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    WAG Chellsie Memmel Comeback??

    She has now confirmed (in the 31 July 2020 YouTube video) that it is a comeback! Training all four apparatus and looking so impressive.
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    Who is still paying their gym fees?

    I paid per school term (South Africa), so paid for full term at end of March. We received an email last week to tell us about new online sessions and we now pay much less per month. The tuition will be subtracted from the term fee that I paid end of March which will help financially as it...
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    Parents Saying no

    It is one of the things that keep me sane :)
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    Parents Musings of a Gym Parent in Isolation

    So sorry that you have to go through this. Have also been there although we managed to keep our house (just). For us it was 10 years ago and I lie awake worrying that it could happen again with the current situation and work just drying up. Hang in there. So many of us are having the same...
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    Parents Help with gym meet anxiety

    I am sorry that you go through this. Be kind to yourself and accept that it is not necessarily something that you can control. That said, there are lots of options for counselling. Maybe try one or more and see if it helps. Full disclosure: My ODD recently started to get really bad panic...
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    WAG Appropriate meet hairstyles

    We also do multiple rows of tiny ponytails each in turn pulled into the next row's pony tail.

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