Best racket for 11 year old boy ith wrist problems

[Pro_Tour_630]

Originally Posted by dannythomas

Wow ! I just tried out a Head Microgel Radical MP myself and on EVERY shot there was excess vibration and some pain in the wrist. And I dont even have wrist problems. There is no way I can let my daughter play with it right now . It may be great for tennis elbow and other arm problems but for a wrist problem ... I dont think so .
Anyway she had a clear MRI scan so she is starting to get used to the Aeropro French Open and says it feels better though she still has some pain on impact with forehand volleys. She did until less than a year ago play with the Areopro Team and before that the aeropro lite and she never used to have wrist problems so I guess this racquet is a natural progression for her . The physical therapist says the volley issue will soon disappear as everything else has. If it doesnt then she will have to rest it again ... Fitness only until it is 100 %
For now we have strung it with Klip Legend and Hurricane 17 loose at 52. If the racquet is lacking in control for her we can do a higher tension once her wrist is 100 %.
PT i hope we are on the right track ?

what grip size ? is it for you or for her? cut out string and try gosen 18 at 40lbs, heck just buy a PT630 in the mean time, try kinesio tape around her wrist also do light strength by squeezing beanbag or putty/clay, gyro/power ball, adjustable foam clamp, gristick etc....

[dannythomas]

No the racquet was supposed to be for her but I wanted to try it out before giving it to her. Having done that ( it is a grip size 2 ) I wont give it to her and haven't decided what to do with it. Think I'll stick with my Prince black !
She seems basically ok with the Aeropro though she had me tearing my hair out when she told me that now her wrist is a lot better she wants to go back to her prostaff 100 !

[klu375]

Originally Posted by dannythomas

Wow ! I just tried out a Head Microgel Radical MP myself and on EVERY shot there was excess vibration and some pain in the wrist. And I dont even have wrist problems. There is no way I can let my daughter play with it right now . It may be great for tennis elbow and other arm problems but for a wrist problem ... I dont think so .

Does she have a few similar Head Microgel Radical MP rackets and did you try more than one? One of them may have developed a micro crack that you cannot see. Take a small hammer and hit the strings gently while holding the rackets and see if you can feel the difference. Take the dampener off when doing the test. I just sent a racket like that back to the manufacturer.

[mctennis]

First- rest that wrist for a long period. If the pain comes back at all then STOP playing. It will only get worse if you continue to play with a sore wrist.
I just read Number1Coach reply. I agree. Plus I would also really take a good look at technique. Something simple may be the issue. Start from square one with a different teaching pro to look at her technique. Main thing is to rest the injured part longer than you think it needs rested. If you rush it then you are just re-injuring the site. It may take months to get it to stop hurting. See a sports trainer to get some exercises to help strengthen that area , all areas actually.
I had a wrist injury and it took a year to recover from it. Wrist splint at night. Finally it stopped hurting. I tried playing once with the pain and I could not hold the racquet tight enough on certain shots it hurt so badly, because I kept trying to play over and over again when it hurt.
Good luck to your child with getting rid of the pain.

[Pro_Tour_630]

no time to rest, her wrist is fine with the Aero and wants to go back to wilson, I say hit the courts,

Originally Posted by dannythomas

now her wrist is a lot better

[Jackofalltrades]

Hi all!
Following this board for more than 3 years, this thread triggered me to write my first post.

I also have a daughter, 12 years old, with wristproblems. As far as I know, the stressed ligament(s) in the wrist (often the cause with wrist issues for girls aged 10-16), cannot be healed by other treatment than rest.
Any different opinions?

[dannythomas]

Originally Posted by Pro_Tour_630

no time to rest, her wrist is fine with the Aero and wants to go back to wilson, I say hit the courts,

I am grateful for the advice you have given but this kind of sarcastic, cheap points scoring comment to presumably either make me out to be some kind of bullying tennis parent forcing their child to play in pain or to make yourself look clever is not necessary .
Throughout this process she has been to see her doctor and her physical therapist who specializes in tennis injuries .She has had treatment on it using the latest equipment several times each week and of course the treatment includes checking out the injury physically " does this hurt, does that hurt ? " . Just to top it up she has had acupuncture on it and now the wrist is not hurting injury prevention and wrist strengthening has begun. She has also been for 2 MRI scans.
With all due respect to the people on here most of who I know mean well I will take the advice of the medical experts as to whether she can play over anyone who has not even seen the injury
Likewise with the technique she has seen more than 1 coach and I have already said the issue has been diagnosed as footwork related rather than stroke related. This makes her late hitting the ball on occasions.
She has as her primary coach someone who is vastly experienced , has worked with countless players from juniors to top 10 pro players and was a highly ranked player himself.
As far as stringing is concerned I was referred last week to someone here in Florida that is a renowned stringer , again having worked for players at all levels.
I came on here asking for racquet and stringing advice. I don't need to be lectured about the medical issues because I have that covered. If my daughter needed 6 months rest if that is what the medical experts had advised , that is what she would be doing right now.
I am not going to name names because of the professional confidentiality issue but if anyone is interested to find out more detail of who and when she has been seeing then please send me a private message.
In the meantime this is just to set the record straight.

[ATP100]

Originally Posted by dannythomas

My daughter currently uses a Wilson Pro Staff 6-1 100 " but she is getting continual wrist issues even though she really likes the racket. I have tried stringing it with natural gut with loose tension but it makes no difference . She has had the injury checked out and it is just inflammation no break. She has rested it a number of times but every time she hits it comes back. She hits with spin and comes to the net . Her coach doesn't think it's a technical issue with her strokes.
I m confused if she should change rackets and if so go heavier or lighter, head light or heavy and stiff or flexible. Any ideas or suggested rackets ? I believe the pro staff is about 10.7 strung.

Originally Posted by ATP100

Most of the time, players hold the racquet tighter than needed. This
causes wrist/elbow/shoulder problems.

This is almost always the problem at any age and level.

[hmd]

I don't know if this help, but my son, advanced junior player, had wrist issue last year (he was 12). We went through a few racquets and also medical treatments. Finally we got referred to Paul Ness, who is an official trainer for the ATP (if you watched the 2013 AusOpen final he was the trainer who worked on Murray foot blisters) within minutes he figured out what the issue was and gave my sons some exercise and the problem went away. The diag was that my son probably felt down at some stage and hurt his wrist and some specialized physio works was all that needed.

The point I am trying to get across is, if you haven't already, to get her to see a specialized tennis physio/trainer. Given she has good technique it is highly likely she has some injury that may be not caused by tennis.

[dannythomas]

Thank you HMD that is good advice. In fact she has been seeing a physical therapist who is also a long time tennis trainer. I agree though 100 % with what you say and I'm glad it worked for your son.
Hopefully you weren't portrayed as an abusive parent by Pro Tour 630 when you got your son back on the court !!

[Pro_Tour_630]

DT, when you come to your senses, you will know that you are wrong,,,,,,,,,,again

remember this thread,

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=337835

it seems you do not know good advice if it hits you 100 MPH in the face

[Pro_Tour_630]

Originally Posted by dannythomas

I am grateful for the advice you have given but this kind of sarcastic, cheap points scoring comment to presumably either make me out to be some kind of bullying tennis parent forcing their child to play in pain or to make yourself look clever is not necessary .
Throughout this process she has been to see her doctor and her physical therapist who specializes in tennis injuries .She has had treatment on it using the latest equipment several times each week and of course the treatment includes checking out the injury physically " does this hurt, does that hurt ? " . Just to top it up she has had acupuncture on it and now the wrist is not hurting injury prevention and wrist strengthening has begun. She has also been for 2 MRI scans.
With all due respect to the people on here most of who I know mean well I will take the advice of the medical experts as to whether she can play over anyone who has not even seen the injury
Likewise with the technique she has seen more than 1 coach and I have already said the issue has been diagnosed as footwork related rather than stroke related. This makes her late hitting the ball on occasions.
She has as her primary coach someone who is vastly experienced , has worked with countless players from juniors to top 10 pro players and was a highly ranked player himself.
As far as stringing is concerned I was referred last week to someone here in Florida that is a renowned stringer , again having worked for players at all levels.
I came on here asking for racquet and stringing advice. I don't need to be lectured about the medical issues because I have that covered. If my daughter needed 6 months rest if that is what the medical experts had advised , that is what she would be doing right now.
I am not going to name names because of the professional confidentiality issue but if anyone is interested to find out more detail of who and when she has been seeing then please send me a private message.
In the meantime this is just to set the record straight.

you came for racquet advice and we gave it to you, and the whole discussion has turned 360 a dozen times, LIKE I SAID , HIT THE COURTS, SHE IS FINE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you are not

[dannythomas]

Originally Posted by Pro_Tour_630

you came for racquet advice and we gave it to you, and the whole discussion has turned 360 a dozen times, LIKE I SAID , HIT THE COURTS, SHE IS FINE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you are not

Thats another highly intelligent comment . So what if you gave advice about using the PD racket 2 years ago and we went in a different direction ?
Your sarcastic comment about hit the courts is borne out of ignorance as to what medical advice and treatment she has been receiving . Unfortunately much as you see yourself as the purveyor of all wisdom I prefer to stick with the advice of the medical experts she has been seeing. Even if it is different from someone who has never seen the injury.

[Pro_Tour_630]

Originally Posted by dannythomas

You are too sharp PT.

make up your mind

Originally Posted by dannythomas

Thats another highly intelligent comment . So what if you gave advice about using the PD racket 2 years ago and we went in a different direction ?
Your sarcastic comment about hit the courts is borne out of ignorance as to what medical advice and treatment she has been receiving . Unfortunately much as you see yourself as the purveyor of all wisdom I prefer to stick with the advice of the medical experts she has been seeing. Even if it is different from someone who has never seen the injury.

not as high as you coming in here disguising her as a younger boy. Do you really think that we are that unintelligent LOL!!!!! DT you do not know what you want that is your problem, you will take her to a dozen different doctors and get a dozen different responses, try dozen different sticks and dozen different string combo, several MRI, accupuncture, $400 per hour coaches that can not make your girl move her feet etc,,,,,,, We gave you more than a dozen different solutions and came to the conclusion, Either rest her for a long period or HIT THE COURT !!!!!!! It seems you do not want to rest her, she has been cleared by her doctors that you trust, heck she even said she was fine, SO THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER LEFT. stop going around in circles and circles, geeze

I see,,,,,,,,,,,, I told you two years ago to go with PD and you went AERO ALA NADAL and now you are regretting it with wrist injury, see i was right, there, happy !!!!!! I can not believe you think like this.

[Pro_Tour_630]

here you are going around in circles

6 months ago you posted you were looking for advice for a 12 year old girl

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=438733

then 6 months later, it was for an 11 year old boy ?

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=453252



why all the sneakiness ? do you have something to hide from your kneejerk response to me, it does seem like you are hiding something, I never accused you of being an abusive parent, you did that all on your owen !!!!! I really meant that you hit the court, no sarcasm there whatsoever.

[dannythomas]

Let me try to answer without falling into a war of words with you.

First the reason for having an on line " alias " is to have some element of confidentaility otherwise everyone would just sign in under their own name. When it comes to children , especially that confidentiality needs protection. Of course tennis is a small world and many may nevertheless know who you are or who I am. If I did I wouldn't broadcast it to everyone on here. Talking about a child it is possible to be over protective and that is probably what I did here by talking of an 11 year old boy. It didn't really affect the essence of the advice I was looking for.

The injury was not caused by the choice of racquet. I already know how the injury occurred because I was there and saw what happened. Having said that I was asking for some advice as to wrist friendly racquets and strings. It was not caused by not using the Pro Drive and using the Aero Pro instead. In fact at the time of the injury she was using the pro staff. That wasn't what caused it either.

I make no apologies for doing the best I can for my daughter both in terms of medical care and coaching. And indeed in choice of technology. Whatever coaches a child uses there is always something they need to improve whether that is forehand, serve or footwork. It doesn't mean the coach is not doing their job, or that the child is a poor player. Improvement comes gradually not overnight which you know as a coach.

If you say your comment that " no time to rest, hit the courts " etc was not being sarcastic then so be it.

Thanks for your advice, I appreciate it. And I'm not being sarcastic.

[dannythomas]

By the way Pro Tour this is not really the correct thread to raise this but since we are in dialogue I also want to mention that I agree absolutely with1 of your threads that Babolat running a marketing campaign portraying tennis racquets hld by its stars as guns and rifles was inappropriate especially in view of the tragic events in Connecticut. The tread ended up being closed for being too political which was unfortunate.
I don't know if you share my concerns that not only is security in many schools too lax and there is complacency that these things can never happen to their school but at junior tennis tournaments there is virtually no security or even guidelines on these issues. often I see parents of young kids being dropped off at 8 am at a tournament and left there all day with no supervision. Kids are often spoken too by other adults they do not know and in a large event with a lot of people who knows if they are parents or something else ?
Of course we pray that nothing bad ever happens at a tennis event but it took the attack on Monica Seles to Get protection for even pro players. Junior players actually need it more.
Or maybe I'm the only one who has these concerns ?

[ga tennis]

Danny i know ProTour and i promise he wasnt being sarcastic. He is a great guy that only wants to help other people. I think you took it the wrong way. Pro Tour only tries to help.

[Pro_Tour_630]

Originally Posted by ga tennis

Danny i know ProTour and i promise he wasnt being sarcastic. He is a great guy that only wants to help other people. I think you took it the wrong way. Pro Tour only tries to help.

thanks bro, we are all passionate parents, no problem.

[Pro_Tour_630]

Originally Posted by dannythomas

By the way Pro Tour this is not really the correct thread to raise this but since we are in dialogue I also want to mention that I agree absolutely with1 of your threads that Babolat running a marketing campaign portraying tennis racquets hld by its stars as guns and rifles was inappropriate especially in view of the tragic events in Connecticut. The tread ended up being closed for being too political which was unfortunate.
I don't know if you share my concerns that not only is security in many schools too lax and there is complacency that these things can never happen to their school but at junior tennis tournaments there is virtually no security or even guidelines on these issues. often I see parents of young kids being dropped off at 8 am at a tournament and left there all day with no supervision. Kids are often spoken too by other adults they do not know and in a large event with a lot of people who knows if they are parents or something else ?
Of course we pray that nothing bad ever happens at a tennis event but it took the attack on Monica Seles to Get protection for even pro players. Junior players actually need it more.
Or maybe I'm the only one who has these concerns ?

agree,,,,,,,,,,,