Why All The Injuries: Who's To Blame

[Valleyfan]

I’m not an expert at all, so no idea who to blame or where the blame lies for the rash of injuries. But I also wonder why not suggest a change of leadership in the strength and conditioning department. What’s the harm - or am I missing something?

 

[todbo]

Over the years I've heard trainers say that young athletes do better injury wise when they play a variety of sports, which develops different muscle groups. As Ralph suggests, the good players are funnelled into one sport from an early age. Instead of rotating sports from one season to the next over s school year - for instance basketball, track, and soccer - for too many kids it's just one sport. I don't know how well the data supports this but it makes sense to me.

Yup.

OneSport Overuse Injury

www.orthoinfo.org

 

[Boreifs]

Might be a Nobel Prize waiting for anyone who can solve this problem.

A Nobel Prize for anyone who can keep these threads from happening.

 

[temery]

Use the search feature. This has been discussed many dozens of times.