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My Gymnast's Injury Experience

Gender: Female
Age now: 12
Age Started Gymnastics: 4 (is going into her 6th year of competitive gymnastics)
Current Level: L9
Hours/Week: 23 hours a week during summer; 20 hours a week during school year
Gymnastics injury 1: Sever's in one foot
Outcome: will eventually resolve itself; Uses the following for pain management: soft tissue massage (3x a week), cold water soak (after each massage), compression( after each training session), and wears an X brace (during training).
 
My ODD:
Gender: F
Age now: 14
Age Started Gymnastics: 8
Current Level and Hours/Week: Training L9 22hrs Summer/20 School

Gymnastics injury 1: Age 13 Torn UCL at Thumb, casted 6 weeks but trained throughout

Gymnastics injury 2: Age 13 Broken great toe, casted 6 weeks but trained

Gymnastics injury 3: Age 13. Stress reactions on both sides of L4, braced for 12 weeks, additional heavy PT for 8 weeks and slow move back to practice- out entire season

Gymnastics injury 4: Age 14 dislocated finger with chipped bone - 4 weeks but trained throughout

Sever's at age 10-11
Osgood Schlatters at 13 - present, PT, icing, acupuncture
 
My YDD
Gender: F
Age now: 9
Age Started Gymnastics: 5
Current Level and Hours/Week: T&T L7/8 9 hrs
Gym Injury 1 She was on jo pre team and fell off uneven bars breaking both bones in left arm. No surgery. multiple casts for 3 mo. PT. Back in gym to condition after 2 weeks, No lingering issues. Now in T&T

My ODD:
Gender: F
Age now: 12
Age Started Gymnastics: 7
Current Level and Hours/Week: XP 16 hrs
Age 1o Osgood. PT. knee strap, ice limited vault
Age 11 Lingering ankle pain, MRI, brace 2-3 mo. PT. Modified tumbling/vault. Much improved after growth spurt. Still ices and uses heel cups.
We have been very lucky
 
Gender: F

Age now: 10

Age started gymnastics: 5

Current Level and Hours/Week: Training L7, 18 hours per week

Gymnastics Injury 1: Age 9. Stress fracture of the distal femur. Total recovery time 10 weeks - Cast for 3 weeks, fixed leg brace for 4 weeks. Non-fixed leg brace for 3 weeks. She was out of gym completely for the first 7 weeks (started swimming at week 4). Conditioning and low impact dance only from weeks 8-10.

No ongoing pain or complications in the leg after return.
 
@raenndrops - I feel for you and for her! She is not a crier, but the few times that she's slipped on come down on the beam on her knee has brought her to the ground in tears. I was a runner, but not until high school and I was mostly done growing, so thankful that never happened to me. I have to wonder what percentage of gym injuries/chronic issues would be avoided if they weren't training while growing...probably a good 50% at least!
I have a similar problem to O-S (but its a degenerative knee disease that ended up with me having no cartilage in my knees by the time I was 35), it was diagnosed at almost 8 years old. Football probably wasn't the best "first" sport for me. I did a bunch of other sports over the years including baseball, basketball, tumbling, bmx racing, volleyball, track, and softball- as a catcher.
I can still be taken out easily... Like your dd, I was never a crier- but wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy (even though she took me out in 8th grade with a math book to the knee while on the stairs at school :mad:, lol).
 

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