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GIRLS science club learns how to treat sports injuries |
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 Avy Mowle (L), 11, of Kincardine holds her leg up while Julie Sweet, 10, of Tiverton wraps the "sprained" ankle |
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Sixteen girls from Kincardine, Tiverton and Port Elgin, had some hands-on learning about the treatment of sports injuries during a morning session of the Girls In Real Life Science (GIRLS) club, Tuesday (March 16) at the Bruce Power Visitors' Centre. Cindy Willits of Lucknow, a kinesiologist and teacher, explained how athletes can get hurt, and demonstrated various treatments for sprains, torn ligaments, and other injuries. For example, in the case of a sprained ankle, she told the girls to follow the RICE treatment:
The most important thing, she said, is to stop the swelling and start the healing. The athlete then has to strengthen her muscles, said Willits, so she doesn't sprain that ankle again. The girls then had a hands-on session, wrapping each other's ankles, scrunchiing towels with their toes, working out the side muscles of their feet, working with therabands, doing stork stands, working a flutter board, standing on blue foam, maintaining their balance on a wobble board, and then jumping and doing figure-eights. The GIRLS club is sponsored by Women in Nuclear (WiN) - Bruce.  Harriet Skinner, 10, of Kincardine works on a flutter board
Trinity Meekins (L), 9, of Kincardine holds the theraband while Kendra Anstey, 10, of Kincardine works her foot against it
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Cindy Willits demonstrates how to wrap a sprained ankle
Delage Mowle, 11, of Kincardine tries balancing on a wobble board
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