Sports related injuries among kids
The New York Times has an interesting article today about the increase in sports related injuries among kids. Kids are training so hard these days and focusing all their efforts on one sport that many have injusries or surgeries that were previously seen only among older people and pro athletes. At work, I’ve read quite a bit about the competitiveness of college admissions and I bet the sports focus has relation to that situation. So many kids only play one sport and play it year round in different leagues plus summer training camps. It’s a new trend, where previously kids played a different sport each season or played non-organized pick up games — maybe football one day and basketball the next. Playing different sports helps kids avoid wear and tear on one particualr area, like shoulders or knees. There is an up side, though. There’s a whole new market for “injury prevention” specialists to help with training and conditioning kids to “reduce overuse injuries” and “correct muscle imbalances brought on by overtraining in a single sport.”
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