Topic: ACL Injuries in Women's Basketball Central Idea: To make the audience aware of the occurrence of torn ACLs in female basketball players.
Value Step: Learning who is most affected by these injuries and how it is possible to avoid them can help you from suffering the injury in the first place.
I. Attention Getter: Did you know that female basketball players are more affected by ACL injuries than males? Female athletes are four to six times more likely to suffer an ACL injury than males of similar age playing the same sport. The gender gap in ACL injury rates is more prevalent during adolescence and tends to decline during early adulthood. Females ages fifteen to nineteen suffer ACL injuries more than any other age group. Female high school basketball players suffer 11. 2 ACL injuries per 100, 00 exposures to athletics.
A. Contemporary Pediatrics(2013)
B. Purpose Statement: To inform you of who and what body parts are more commonly affected from playing the sport and how these injuries can be avoided in the future.
C. Preview of Main Points:
1. First, I will tell you which injuries occur most frequently.
2. Second, I will tell you the reasons ACL injuries are more common in females.
3. Last, I will tell you how these injuries can be avoided from happening in the first place.
Transition: Now I will inform you of one of the most frequent injuries in women's hoops.
II. Most Common Basketball Injuries in Females A. ACL(Anterior Cruciate Ligament) is one of the most common injuries in women's basketball.
B. These injuries are usually non-contact injuries.
C. 70% of ACL injuries occur from non-contact motions like: landing, cutting, pivoting or decelerating.
D. An uncontrolled trunk movement counting lateral relocation while jumping, or cutting maneuvers have been related with an increased ACL damage risk in female players.
E. JOURNAL OF ORTHOPEDICS(2012)
Transition: I will now tell you about who is more prone to injury.
III. Why females are more prone to ACL injurie...
