There are over 40 millions of youth practicing sports in the USA today. They are participating in organized sports through school, sports community center and team organization. That is great to see so many youngsters getting in shape and getting away from overweight or drugs.

The most popular sports remain football and basketball even if baseball is still very popular, soccer is growing very fast and it may climb eventually as the most popular sports.

The young people are so enthusiasthic about it that they are subject to mild and serious injury. It is good to train yourself to improve your skills, security is very important. We hope that more and more coaches and responsible authority will work in the manner to reduce the quantity of yearly injury. We easily talking about 4 millions of injury every year in US only.

Choosing good training equipment, closer supervision in the training program and better coaching is one of the key to avoid injury. Everybody likes to win but safety and security in sports is essentials for our kids. Following professionnal athletes is fine, they are models for kids but remember that professionnal athletes are less than 0.01% and health is very important. Every parent have the right to know what kind of drills are practice and the danger that can represent.

The common injury go to slight pulls and minor sprains to anterior cruciate ligament damage in the knee commonly call ACL injury. Volleyball, basketball and soccer are always dangerous for knee accident so double check and be careful when playing these sports.