27August 2020
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.– The coronavirus pandemic caused sports and other after-school activities to come to a stop.
Now, a board-certified chiropractic practitioner is alerting that if kids jump back into activities too quick, the effect might be damaging.
Lately, Dr. David Rudnick has been hectic treating children with a variety of sports injuries that he said are associated with overuse.
Rudnick stated the injuries could be traced back to the inactivity kids experienced throughout the lockdown previously this year because of the pandemic.
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“Going and not doing anything and getting where you ended is a recipe for catastrophe,” Rudnick stated.
Dancer Makaila Menning,13, is being treated for a current injury. Makaila said she went from dancing 15 hours a week to unexpectedly a month of no dancing. When she resumed dancing, that's when problems happened.
“I got actually tight,” Makalia stated. “I might hardly simulate half of what I was doing.”
Then she discovered knee discomfort.
“Three, 4, five, six months of downtime, you're going through a development spurt that you're not accommodating to with your activity that you generally would have been overcoming,” Rudnick stated.
He stated it is essential for kids and grownups to set up out time to be active.
“Play, whatever you want to do, just get up and move, simply no relaxing. Even if it's simply around your house, dance party, pull it up on YouTube,” Rudnick stated.
He said kids shouldn't spend more than 30 minutes sitting at a screen without getting up and moving.
“The parents should watch for prolonged forward neck flection. You should not remain in this bent down position. It puts a lot of extra load on the back of the neck,” Rudnick stated.
Makalia stated it's a lesson discovered.
“It seemed like the world sort of froze for a minute … I had to keep working and keep going,” she said.
Source: wptv.com