juststartingout
Proud Parent
- Sep 9, 2011
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My daughter's gym seems to be plagued with ankle injuries lately. In her group of about 14 girls we have had 5 or more ankle injuries. We have a 7 yo who fractured hers doing backhandsprings on a tumble track (this girl could do them on floor) and has reinjured hers 3 more times since. The original injury had her out all last summer and then she has been out wks at a time with every reinjury. We had another girl 9yo injure hers doing a layout on floor and is still wearing a brace and needing to sit out periodically because it's bothering her. The last incident was on Tues. we had a girl 8yo roll her ankle doing leaps. She has to wait a day or so for the swelling to go down before they can determine if there is a fracture. While these girls warm up every day I never see them roll their ankles or do anything to stretch or strengthen their ankles. I would think after so many injuries that the coaches would be extra careful in this area. These injuries have all been in the last year. Is this normal or is it too many?