Long Canyon - September 2014

LONG CANYON

SEPTEMBER 2014

A Newsletter for the Residents of the Long Canyon

Volume 7, Issue 9

Give Back to Students, Teachers and Schools through HCEF

Foundation Celebrates 5-Year Anniversary Hill Country Education Foundation volunteers are busy preparing for another active year. Please participate in these upcoming events and support Your Four Points Academic Booster Club, which is celebrating its five-year anniversary!

Monday, September 15 – VHS Open House. Stop by the HCEF table.

Wednesday, October 1 – HCEF Fall Fundraising Campaign.

HCEF 5th Annual Fall Fundraising Campaign gets underway. Money raised goes back to your students through supplemental program, curriculum, tools and other resources. More than $300k given to date.

For quick and easy giving, go to www.HillCountryEdFoundation.org.

Early November – 6th Annual FIRST® LEGO® League Scrimmage. To learn more this HCEF event, email info@

HillCountryEdFoundation.org.

Saturday, February 28 – Annual Gala at the Westin Austin at the Domain. Dinner, Silent and Live Auctions, Heads or Tails Game, Live Band and more planned for HCEF’s largest fundraiser of the year. To volunteer, donate or learn more, contact info@ HillCountryEdFoundation.org.

Early May – 5th Annual Impact Grant Awards. HCEF Grant Committee will surprise area teachers and administrators with program funding during the annual grant patrol. To date, HCEF has awarded more than $120,000. Want to be on the Grant Committee? Email info@HillCountryEdFoundation.org.

Late May – 2nd Annual HCEF Educational Excellence Scholarships will be awarded

ABOUT HILL COUNTRY EDUCATION FOUNDATION As Your Four Points Academic Booster Club, HCEF serves the eight public schools in the Four Points community by enhancing the educational experience of students attending or preparing to attend Vandegrift High School through developing and financing innovative, quality programs and projects. HCEF focuses on leadership, entrepreneurship, college-readiness, science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). HCEF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The eight schools include Grandview Hills, Laura Welch Bush, River Ridge, River Place and Steiner Ranch Elementary Schools, Canyon Ridge and Four Points Middle Schools and Vandegrift High School.

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INJURY PREVENTION IN YOUNG ATHLETES

By Brett Neilson and Mike McTague | Doctors of Physical Therapy | Orthopedic Certified Specialists

As another fall sports season approaches, a major goal of the coaches, trainers, and parents is keeping the athletes healthy and contributing to their respective sports. However, injury is inevitable and part of the game. Pediatric athletes present with a variety of injuries, the most common being the overuse type like Osgood-Schlatter disease and stress fractures. These injuries occur due to excessive stress placed on bone, muscle and tendon tissue that are constantly growing and not always at the same rate. Risk factors for these injuries include asymmetry in joint flexibility/mobility and muscle strength, impaired balance, training and recovery errors, and previous injury. There is potential for many overuse injuries to be prevented by knowing and following a few simple principles.

Pre-participation physical exams can be helpful for identifying many of the risk factors mentioned previously. It is recommended that these exams should include at minimum an assessment of joint mobility and flexibility and muscle strength and flexibility, as well as a thorough review of the past medical history to determine if the student is even appropriate for athletics. Recently, functional screening tools have been developed to reveal asymmetries and imbalances during basic movement patterns that are the foundation for many of the movements required during sport.

Training and conditioning play a major role in injury prevention as well. The term “cultural deconditioning” has been coined recently to describe the decrease in physical activity in our youth that has coincided with an increase in video game

and computer use. So when the offseason ends and it’s time to get out and enjoy the 105 degreeTexas heat, the body is not ready to stand up to the stresses suddenly placed on the body. A way to combat this is to promote an active, healthy lifestyle by putting down the Xbox controller and spending more time outside, taking part in offseason conditioning camps, or participating in local fitness classes.

A guideline known as the “10% rule” has also been developed to allow student athletes to transition back into sports activities. The idea is that the amount of training time, distance, repetitions, or load should not be increased by greater than 10% per week. For example, if a student is running 10 miles per week, they should not run more than 11 miles in the following week.

Knowing the signs and symptoms of overuse injuries is paramount. They are all too often written off as “growing pains” and are allowed to increase in severity, resulting in extensive time away from sport during the recovery process.

Common signs and symptoms include pain that is persistent in nature, takes longer than usual to resolve, visible swelling, tenderness that can be localized to one area, and/or require interruption of normal athletic activities.

Finally, having an open-line of communication between the coaches, trainers, other health care professionals, parents, and athletes is imperative in injury prevention. Lack of or inconsistencies in the transfer of information between any of these parties can result in delayed access to proper prevention or treatment techniques and keep the athlete from performing at the highest possible level.

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LONG CANYON A Focus on Backpack Safety Tips for Your Family By: Concentra Urgent Care WEAR BOTH STRAPS The use of one strap causes one side of the body to bear the weight of the backpack. By using two shoulder straps, the weight of the backpack is evenly distributed. Wear the backpack over the strongest mid-back muscles. Pay close attention to the way the backpack is positioned on the back. It should rest evenly in the middle of the back. Shoulder straps should be adjusted to allow the child to put on and take off the backpack without difficulty and allow free movement of the arms. Straps should not be too loose, and the backpack should not extend below the low back.

LIGHTEN THE LOAD Keep the load at 10%-15% or less of the child’s body weight. Carry only those items that are required for the day. Organize the contents of the backpack by placing the heaviest items closest to the back. Some students have two sets of books, so as not to have to carry the heavy books to and from school.

PROPER BACKPACK USAGE While a backpack is still one of the best ways to tote homework, an overloaded or improperly worn backpack gets a failing grade, according to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). Improper backpack use can cause injury, especially to children with young, growing muscles and joints.

Injury can occur when a child, in trying to adapt to a heavy load, uses harmful postures such as arching the back, leaning forward or, if only one strap is used, leaning to one side.

According to physical therapists, these postural adaptations can cause spinal compression and/ or improper alignment, and may hamper the proper functioning of the disks between the vertebrae that provide a shock absorption. A tooheavy load also causes muscles and soft tissues of the

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back to work harder, leading to strain and fatigue. This leaves the back more vulnerable to injury. A heavy load may also cause stress or compression to the shoulders and arms. When nerves are compressed, the child may experience tingling or numbness in the arms.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A BACKPACK Physical therapists recommend the following features when selecting a backpack: • A padded back to reduce pressure on the back and prevent the pack’s contents from digging into the child’s back • A waist belt to help distribute some of the load to the pelvis • Compression straps on the sides or bottom of the backpack that, when tightened, compress the contents of the backpack and stabilize the articles • Reflective material so that the child is visible to drivers at night THE RESULTS Worn correctly and not overloaded, a backpack is supported by some of the strongest muscles in the body: the back and abdominal muscles. These muscle groups work together to stabilize the trunk and hold the body in proper postural alignment.

HOW A PHYSICAL THERAPIST CAN HELP A physical therapist can help you choose a proper backpack and fit it specifically to your child. Children come in all shapes and sizes, and some have physical limitations that require special adaptations. Additionally, a physical therapist can help improve posture problems, correct muscle imbalances, and treat pain that can result from improper backpack use. Physical therapists can also design individualized fitness programs to help children get strong and stay strong – and carry their own loads.

For more information on backpack safety, visit the American Physical Therapy Association at www.apta. org.

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