WAG Injury and your gyms"rules"

[Deleted member 17723]

What is your gyms rules on injuries? Are you allowed to practice while injured? Do you have to stay out of the gym completely? Do you have to get doctor notes allowing a gymnast to be taped/wear a brace and to return to gym? When do you require a doctor visit? How much pain do they let the girls practice through?
My gym typically says if there is bruising, swelling and pain more than a 3 (scale 1-10) for more than 2 days you need a doctor visit. In the meantime, it is up to the gymnast what they do. For overuse-if you can't walk or tumble without pain, or it brings you to tears you have to go the doctor. We are usually encouraged to come... but not always. For example, when I sprained my ankle, there was possible growth plate damage that we did eventually figure out-but I also have shin splints. My doctor gave me the ok to do upper body and bars, but my coach requested I took 2 weeks off, 3rd week only go 3 days for 2 hours. We don't require doctor notes for bracing/tape but for minor sprains my coaches usually only allow 2 weeks of tape max unless there is a doctor note. For me, I can be taped whenever because I am older and they know I don't want to be taped to look "cool" but the ones that they can tell just want to look "cool" they won't tape and have them do what they can. Depending on the girl, and the coach, we usually say any pain that is enough to complain about=conditioning/flexibility. Some coaches say pain that you can deal with, keep doing stuff. It depends.

 

[Aussie_coach]

I expect my gymnasts to,come even with injuries. We send the, to specialist physics who have gy,nastics knowledge and we are given a report on what they can and can't do. That gymnast is Written an alternative program of what they are doing in training.

 

[emilykatherine]

I go to hang out if I'm injured, and I always take a doctors note for when I'm released or a note from my pt. i haven't been injured enough to completely sit out in a while.

 

[GymCMLA]

I think our rule is if you need to alter your practice for a week then you need to go to the doctor.
Also no tiger paws w/o a dr. note until you are in the gym 4 days a week >12 hours.
Still come when injured. We have a book of conditioning that you use avoiding what is injured.
Doctors/PT notes help for when you are transitioning back into practice from "the binder".

 

[windydays]

Gymnasts are generally expected to come to practice in our gym. They receive an alternative work schedule based on their physical abilities.

 

[raenndrops]

It depends on the injury. We had a girl with a concussion (gotten at school) and it got bad enough that she wasn't allowed to step foot into the gym for 2 months. (Her doctor had her on a no physical activity, no electronics, no reading plan for those 2 months.)
Right now, she comes once every couple of weeks and does a little conditioning, but has to stop if she gets a headache.
As long as nothing is broken, gymnasts are encouraged to come and do what they can, even if it is just conditioning. If something is broken, it is up to the gymnast had her family and doctor... parents just have to keep HC informed.
Braces are allowed with diagnosed injury and continued bracing is based on Dr or PT note.
OG has braces for both knees and both ankles and has tiger paws for her wrists. What she actually wears depends on how she feels that day.
YG has an ankle brace and a wrist brace, both of which, she RARELY wear.

 

[2gymnastand1soccerplayer]

At our gym, as long as it's not a concussion you should come to modified practices. What you do depends on your injury.

We had one girl that broke her foot tumbling, she was still expected to come at least 2 times a week ( out of the 4 day training week). she did a lot of conditioning and some bar work that didn't involve her foot

What i'm getting is that depending on your injury will depend on what our coaches will let the gymnast do.

I do know our coaches will always listen to a doctor or physio therapist if they say not to do a certain skills they will listen, or even if the girls just come in and do their physio exercises they are fine with that. If the doctor says no training than the coach says no training, they always want what's best for the gymnast.

I do know that a lot of times kids at our gym will walk out with an ankle taped or KT tape on their knee, so I their coach is ok with taping the kids getting then to do modified numbers the rest of practice, and then try again the next practice, if their is still pain he says to go see a doctor to get it checked out.

 

[coach1234]

Our gym says if it's a break nothing until you have been to the 2nd check up, which is usually a couple of days- a week after the injury happened, then they are allowed in to do conditioning

Any other injury, gets referred to our gyms PT who will see the gymanst at the gym
and say what they can and cannot do and she will then say whether or not the gymnast needs to have rduced training adapted training or no training at all, she will then say if it should be seen by a doctor

 

[sophiesmom]

My little one's gym expects their gymnasts to train through pain and the coach gets upset if a gymnast complains that something hurts. The coach is a former high level gymnast who tells the girls that the coach would never have been so successful if they'd stopped training during injuries. Recently this has included fractures and back injuries going so far as to undermine what doctors have told parents and to push the girls to do things the doctors have said were to be avoided. This, among other questionable things has fairly recently come to my attention and I'm trying to figure out what to do. So upsetting!

 

[Rockygym]

My little one's gym expects their gymnasts to train through pain and the coach gets upset if a gymnast complains that something hurts. The coach is a former high level gymnast who tells the girls that the coach would never have been so successful if they'd stopped training during injuries. Recently this has included fractures and back injuries going so far as to undermine what doctors have told parents and to push the girls to do things the doctors have said were to be avoided. This, among other questionable things has fairly recently come to my attention and I'm trying to figure out what to do. So upsetting!

Yikes! That does not sound like a safe, healthy environment.

 

[Moxiegrl83]

My little one's gym expects their gymnasts to train through pain and the coach gets upset if a gymnast complains that something hurts. The coach is a former high level gymnast who tells the girls that the coach would never have been so successful if they'd stopped training during injuries. Recently this has included fractures and back injuries going so far as to undermine what doctors have told parents and to push the girls to do things the doctors have said were to be avoided. This, among other questionable things has fairly recently come to my attention and I'm trying to figure out what to do. So upsetting!

I'd be finding a new gym or finding a new sport.

 

[Deleted member 17723]

My little one's gym expects their gymnasts to train through pain and the coach gets upset if a gymnast complains that something hurts. The coach is a former high level gymnast who tells the girls that the coach would never have been so successful if they'd stopped training during injuries. Recently this has included fractures and back injuries going so far as to undermine what doctors have told parents and to push the girls to do things the doctors have said were to be avoided. This, among other questionable things has fairly recently come to my attention and I'm trying to figure out what to do. So upsetting!

Yikes... sounds dangerous and very upsetting! I would be looking into a new gym....

 

[SurpriseGymMom]

Our coaches are very good about both letting us know if something happened during practice *and* if they notice something that might be amiss, pain and injury wise. The girls are expected to come to practice even if they are hurt, and their workouts will be modified. Some girls have been unable to do much of anything (back injuries etc) and still come to practice. The only exceptions are if your doctor expressly forbids it, we have had a couple of girls with exposed nails/pins into bones that were not allowed to come in until the nails/pins were taken out.

 

[windydays]

My little one's gym expects their gymnasts to train through pain and the coach gets upset if a gymnast complains that something hurts. The coach is a former high level gymnast who tells the girls that the coach would never have been so successful if they'd stopped training during injuries. Recently this has included fractures and back injuries going so far as to undermine what doctors have told parents and to push the girls to do things the doctors have said were to be avoided. This, among other questionable things has fairly recently come to my attention and I'm trying to figure out what to do. So upsetting!

This does not sound good at all!

 

[gothgymmom]

DD's knee has been bothering her, and HC thinks it is probably Osgood-Schlatters. Last tues at practice DD was in tears saying her knee hurt, ice was not helping, and a wrap was not helping. We took her out for the week to give her knee a break, and tomorrow she has a dr apt. I dont think HC was very pleased we pulled her out as she just walked away from DH when he said he was taking her home. I'm sorry, but my DDs health come way before gym, so if I feel the need to take her out for a week to give her knee a break, then by dangit Im going to do it, and not care who i upset by doing it!

 

[wgymmom]

DD has (thank God!) been very healthy, but from what I know, gymnasts are expected to maintain a normal practice schedule as much as possible. Girls generally come and do rehab or anything that they can do around their injury.

 

[Dka]

My dd did not miss any practices during her numerous injuries over the last year. She conditioned and did what she could with casts on or boots or stitches etc.. The coach is excellent when dealing with injuries and never let's the kids come back too soon... She has come back four times in one year after fractures/ surgeries if it were not for her coach she would have never made it this far!!!

 

[Deleted member 17723]

My dd did not miss any practices during her numerous injuries over the last year. She conditioned and did what she could with casts on or boots or stitches etc.. The coach is excellent when dealing with injuries and never let's the kids come back too soon... She has come back four times in one year after fractures/ surgeries if it were not for her coach she would have never made it this far!!!

yikes... hope she doesn't get hurt to much more! Injuries are just part of the sport... but many coaches insist on bringing girls back to early-I'm glad your dd has such great coaches.

 

[Dka]

Her story is a great one though. She was an 11 year old level 8( competed 5 meets) she fractured her hand in two spots in feb of 2014, then in June had an appendectomy, at the end of July fractured her elbow, came back at the end of September got all of her level 8 skills back by the end of November then on dec 3 fractured her foot. She competed in the level 8 state championships last weekend and got a 36.9 ( after competing in a couple of meets with low 34 scores) . She even got twelve stitches on her eyelid on feb 17 of this year and had to miss ten days( still conditioned) She is the comeback queen because of her coaches, never once thinking about giving up.

 

[gothgymmom]

DD's knee has been bothering her, and HC thinks it is probably Osgood-Schlatters. Last tues at practice DD was in tears saying her knee hurt, ice was not helping, and a wrap was not helping. We took her out for the week to give her knee a break, and tomorrow she has a dr apt. I dont think HC was very pleased we pulled her out as she just walked away from DH when he said he was taking her home. I'm sorry, but my DDs health come way before gym, so if I feel the need to take her out for a week to give her knee a break, then by dangit Im going to do it, and not care who i upset by doing it!

UPDATE::::: DD does not have Osgood-Schlatters, but a really tight quad and needs to do more quad stretching. Shes back at the gym with the gym being informed of this so they can do more stretches for her quads.