Dr. Yuvraj Singh’s Positive Physiotherapy had organised a seminar on ‘Young Athlete Development’ throuh a a round table meet with experts and coaches at Mahim Juvenile Sports Club, Shivaji Park on Saturday evening. The purpose of this seminar was for helping young athletes off to a strong start. The seminar was supported by Kriyakinesis and Sportsnasha.
Many prominent sportspersons turned coaches from different sports participated in this meet. The Panel of speakers comprised of Dr. Yuvraj Singh, Head Positive Physiotherapy, Dr. Priya Jaiswal, Sports performance Specialist, Dr. Pradnya Girdhar, Movement Specialist, Dr. Ruchira Tendolkar, Kriyakinesis, Strength & Conditioning Specialist, Atharva Tere, M.Sc Sports Science, Fitness Coach for Chennayin FC & Prof. Rajesh Deo of Sportsnasha.
After Mr. Yevlekar from Mahim Juvenile Sports Club welcomed the participants, Dr. Yuvraj Singh explained the purpose of this round table meet and appealed to coaches, to participate actively with their questions to the panel of experts present on the occasion. The panel of experts initially emphasized the need for motor skill development among kids from the age of 5 to 6 years. The unanimously agreed that parents play an important role to develop the habit of sports in their children and they play the role of a coach before the child attains the age of 6 years.All of them were of the view that children be allowed to play, whichever game they were interested in , till they attain teenage.
There was good interaction between the coaches present and the experts to clear some douts about exercises for children to attain better results. Dr. Yuvraj Singh with the help of Dr. Priya Jaiswal demonstrated some exercises to avoind sports injuries in children. Dr. Yuvraj Singh assured that there will be series of such seminars to follow and this was just a beginning.