I have been coaching for 8 and 1/2 years and have never had a major injury with one of my kids...... until this past fortnight.
2 weeks ago today we were doing bars and practicing long swings. the girl I had up on the bar has been doing gym for several years and we have done swings plenty of times. when I told her ok jump down and slowed her swings instead of jumping off at the back she jump at the front, skidded on to her bottom and put her arms out behind her. She was crying and said her elbow hurt and we could see it was swollen. we called her mum who took her to the doctors and it turned out she had broken it
then..... tonight during warm-ups the girls (same group) were practicing their backward walkovers. One girl cannot quite do them by herself yet but told me she had been practing at home and had nearly done one. I told her to go and do some on the crashmat (something she has done many times) so off she went. all of a sudden there was a horrible noise of crying. I rushed over to her and the first words out her mouth were "i heard it snap". sure enough her forearm was swollen/bent. the poor thing was in so much pain. so we again called parents who have taken her to the hospital. I have not spoken to them yet but there is no doubt that she has broken it
so out of a group of 7 girls i now have 2 with broken arms! I cannot believe it. really what were two freak accidents in two weeks both resulting in broken arms. It is such a horrible feeling seeing the girls hurt while I am supposed to be looking after them, especially when they are in so much pain and i can't really do anything more than put ice on it.
anyway I just wanted to vent a little, so thanks for reading
2 weeks ago today we were doing bars and practicing long swings. the girl I had up on the bar has been doing gym for several years and we have done swings plenty of times. when I told her ok jump down and slowed her swings instead of jumping off at the back she jump at the front, skidded on to her bottom and put her arms out behind her. She was crying and said her elbow hurt and we could see it was swollen. we called her mum who took her to the doctors and it turned out she had broken it
then..... tonight during warm-ups the girls (same group) were practicing their backward walkovers. One girl cannot quite do them by herself yet but told me she had been practing at home and had nearly done one. I told her to go and do some on the crashmat (something she has done many times) so off she went. all of a sudden there was a horrible noise of crying. I rushed over to her and the first words out her mouth were "i heard it snap". sure enough her forearm was swollen/bent. the poor thing was in so much pain. so we again called parents who have taken her to the hospital. I have not spoken to them yet but there is no doubt that she has broken it
so out of a group of 7 girls i now have 2 with broken arms! I cannot believe it. really what were two freak accidents in two weeks both resulting in broken arms. It is such a horrible feeling seeing the girls hurt while I am supposed to be looking after them, especially when they are in so much pain and i can't really do anything more than put ice on it.
anyway I just wanted to vent a little, so thanks for reading