Today was Thursday night training for age groups of U7’s, U8’s, U9’s and U10’s. I had no appointments booked in for today so as I arrived I went straight to the astro pitch at South Dartmoor Community College and helped with the warmup and cool down of the session. There were 4 different age groups in the same place so it was easy for me to attend to all groups to keep an eye out for any injuries that may occur.

During tonight’s session I attended to an ankle injury, checking the ROM was okay with comparing it to the other ankle. At Saints SW they have a “bounce back” policy where once they go down they have a couple of seconds to “bounce back up”, if they are ‘fine’ they will get back up but if they feel like they need a medical assessment then they stay down. This is when I went over to the player knowing he needed me to have a look at his injury. After going through his ROM he said his pain was now only at a 2/10 and said he is able to continue, I advised if it starts to hurt again, to sit out of training, I also advised to apply ice to his ankle when he got home to help with the swelling.