19.02.2007 at 20:12
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Sport Medicine
New research finds that serious injuries in young athletes are happening more frequently, and at a younger age.
“This research basically adds to the current concerns and climate that orthopedics have been seeing for probably the last decade,” said Dr. Richard Schultz, an assistant professor of surgery at Texas A&M Health Science Center and chief of staff at Scott & White University Medical Campus, at Round Rock.
“The incredible popularity and widespread nature of the club sports or select sports create a level of year-round intensity and single-sports efforts that can really lead to a lot of the overuse injuries in these children,” he said. Those types of injuries, “we used to never see until they were late in high school or even college,” Schultz said. [Continues on HealthDay News]
