Physiotherapists tip coaches

Marianne Lislevand, her colleague Siri Lund from Norway and Enos Karani last Tuesday gave a 1 day sports injuries prevention session to coaches attending the KISE-organised footbal coaching course. Both Marianne and Siri are doing a masters degree programme in Sports Physiotherapy at a Norwegian University.

The intensive sessions were very well organised and included practival and theory sessions. Enos Karani is a former Mathare United goalkeeper and does fitness training to the team which trains at the Goan Institute.

Plans and discussions are at an advanced stage to include the topic on sports injuries on all KISE-Organised coaching courses. The participants who attended the course really appreciated the topic and asked that in future courses it be given more time.

Rehabilitation patterns of injured players was also discussed in depth. There exists a current situation where coaches, and even players do not know how to take good care that players careers do not get endangered by not practising sufficiently or at times over-practising.

The lectures and practicals gave by the three physios were an eye opener to the participants.

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