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Injury has become an epidemic among youth and collegiate sports in North America and as participation increases in youth sport, so too do the number of injuries. As recently as 2014, it was estimated that 1.5 million high-school and collegiate athletes are injured annually. While intuitively we may attribute many of these injuries to trauma or contact to the affected limb or body segment, it is less commonly known that up to 70% of all soft-tissue injury<\/strong><\/em> can occur in the absence of contact!<\/p>\n Soft-tissue injuries are largely multi-factorial and may be reliant on a combination of both uncontrollable and controllable risk factors. Research has shown, one controllable risk factor is to monitor training load to note potential fatigue and prevent overtraining. An effective way to mitigate this risk factor is through Load Management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n