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| MED | Player-to-Player Contact Source for High School Soccer Concussions
Heading a ball appears to spectators as one of the most dangerous plays in soccer. However, only 6.6 percent of injuries are caused by this flashy move—and contact with the ball accounted for only 7 percent of concussions, while player-to-player contact resulted in more than 70 percent.
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| MED | Misconceptions About Pediatric Sports Injuries Sometimes Slow Recovery
As one of only 120 board-certified pediatric sports medicine physicians in the country, Mark Halstead, M.D., instructor in orthopaedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has particular insight into young athletes and the injuries that commonly occur. His experience enables him to address a number of misconceptions that exist regarding pediatric sports injuries. | 23-Jul-2008
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| MED | Worry About All Blows to the Head
Sports-related concussions in young athletes frequently go unrecognized, and often do not receive proper respect for the potential seriousness that even a mild injury may have. | 23-Jul-2008
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| MED | Young Athletes Need Downtime for Their Bodies and Psyches
Not every child is sitting around playing an Xbox. Some are at the other end of the spectrum, playing multiple competitive sports year-round. That imbalance leaves them open to injury. | 23-Jul-2008
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| MED | Boys, Sports & Testicular Injury: When to Wear a Cup
As a parent, watching your son play sports encourages a variety of emotions: pride, excitement and fear. No parent wants to see his or her son injured on the field. But, it is hard to know at what age young boys should begin to protect their privates and start wearing a cup.
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| MED | Don’t Let Injuries Keep your Child in the Dugout
Caution from parents and coaches can prevent injuries in young baseball players. | 23-Jul-2008
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| MED | Sports Medicine Center for Young Athletes Offers Advice on Injury Prevention
Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland has the region’s first sports medicine clinic just for kids. The Sports Medicine Center for Young Athletes, a division of the hospital’s pediatric orthopedic surgery department, evaluates treats and rehabilitates children and adolescents with sports-related injuries. The center also designs injury prevention programs specific to adolescents, whose growing bones and cartilage are more susceptible to injuries than those of adults. | 23-Jul-2008
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| MED | Doping Education and Prevention
David Baron helped develop the doping education program for the Beijing Olympics. He's a veteran of six Olympic Games, having served as a doping control officer and a psychiatrist for the athletes. Because doping is a behavior and a lot of the side effects are psychiatric, his interest lies in what motivates athletes to use drugs and how we can intervene.
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| MED | Lower Extremity Strain in Olympic Athletes
A former Olympic-class race walker, Howard Palamarchuk, DPM, knows firsthand the strain that running, walking and jumping can have on the lower extremities. He notes that a universal complaint among the Olympic athletes this year has been the choice of pavement materials for the long-distance courses in Beijing.
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| Focusing the Mind of the Olympic Athlete
Mentally preparing for the Olympics is just as important as physical training, says Michael Sachs, Ph.D., a kinesiology professor at Temple’s College of Health Professions. The main objective is to keep the athletes focused on their event.
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