Children and Sports Medicine
Children have special needs when it comes to sports conditiong, and injury prevention. Here are links of interest.
Don't become a parent who yells and screams at their kids, the coaches and the umpires from the sidelines. Encouraging your child to play sports is one of the best ways to help him or her develop healthy habits that will last a lifetime, but some parents take it too far by emphasizing winning rather than skill development and having fun.
Coaching your own child in sports can be challenging. But, if you can separate being a coach from being a parent, you and your child could have a wonder bonding experience while you have fun and get healthy together.
Any child who plays sports will eventually have an injury. Learn about the most common types, and how they can be prevented.
This checklist can help parents make sure their kids spors teams and clubs are safe, fun and well managed.
Doctors are seeing more kids with chronic and overuse injuries; experts link this with year-round sports training and little rest in the off-season.
As the number of overweight and obese children continues to grow, more and more parents are turning to personal trainers for help.
Recommended reading for every parent whose child plays sports.
The American College of Sports Medicine offers the follwoing guidelines to reduce the growing number of kids showing up in the doctor’s office with sports injuries.
Kids can benefit from performing appropriate strength training exercises; if they do it properly
Sure kids can benefit fom strength training. The key is to lift correctly.
Backyard trampoline injuries lead to emergency room visits for over 60,000 kids each year. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons provides the following safety tips for parents of children using trampolines.
