Tennis Injuries from Serving the Tennis Ball – An Analysis of 3 Types of Tennis Serves Researchers led by Dr. Geoffrey D. Adams and colleagues at Stanford University looked at three different types of tennis serves to see if certain serves were more strongly associated with musculoskeletal injury. The three types of tennis serves considered… Read more »
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Common Pediatric Sports Injuries – An Overview of the Latest Sports Medicine Research
An excellent article comparing pediatric sports injuries to adolescence sports injuries was published in American Journal of Sports Medicine August 2013. Authors Dr. Andrea Stracciolini and Dr. Lyle Micheli et al. from Boston’s Children’s Hospital looked at two groups of athletes based on age: 5-12 years olds and 13-17 year olds. Over 2,100 children were… Read more »
Pediatric Sports Injuries: An Epidemic
As a sports medicine specialist and an orthopedic surgeon that treats youth sports injuries we are faced with two serious problems. They tend to be on opposite sides of the spectrum: The rise of childhood obesity and the parallel rise in pediatric sports injuries. I would like to quote Dr. Lyle Micheli who is one… Read more »
Sports Injuries – Comparing Children and Teens with Sports Injuries
Sports Injuries in Kids – Researchers Compare Young Children with Teens – Sports injuries are very common among children, and a concern to parents, coaches and doctors. Sometimes when we talk about sports injuries and kids, we refer to kids as a group as though they are all the same. New research is looking more… Read more »
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