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Following a tour of the facility Colleen Cupido opened the first half of the educational evening with a presentation on common injuries in sport. She dealt with such injuries as: strains, sprains, contusions, fractures, and brain injuries. She emphasized the need for properly dealing with injuries, which includes early assessment and well designed and monitored treatments. In terms of children or adolescents receiving a concussion she emphasized that such injuries will take longer to heal with them than with adults. Steve Lidstone led the second half of the evening and focused on two topics: Building the young athlete under the model of the applied Long-Term Development model, and then he focused on the importance of dynamic warm-up and pro-active cool-downs. He emphasized the need to develop physical literacy by emphasizing multi-sport (particularly in running, gymnastics, and swimming) training, taking advantages of windows of trainability, and keeping it fun. In terms of warms ups he encouraged beginning with some general aerobic exercises, followed by mobility and active isolated stretching (for two seconds per stretch), and concluded with technical sport specific neuromuscular activities. He encouraged people to develop cool-downs that lowered heart rate, included stretching, offered nutrition and hydration, and possible therapeutic modalities. Through both the warm-up and cool-down faces he encouraged coaches and trainers to think of fun and engaging ways to do it. For more information on the Long-Term Development Model go to: http://www.canadiansportforlife.ca/ To see how the Long-Term Development Model is applied to different sports go to: http://www.canadiansportforlife.ca/default.aspx?PageID=1177&LangID=en For more on physical literacy go to: http://www.phecanada.ca/developingphysicalliteracy/e/whatis_pl/ For some fun and engaging games for warm ups and cool downs check out: http://www.humankinetics.com//products/all-products/101-fun-warm-up-and-cool-down-games For more fun and engaging games check out the resources at CIRA Ontario’s website: http://www.ciraontario.com/ehr/page/resources Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport–2008 http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/43/Suppl_1/i76.full.pdf
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