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Deb Vee
Deb Vee

The Rise in Youth Sports Injuries

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 23:36. | comments

In my article, Specializing in Youth Sports, Good or Bad, I touched on the current increase in injuries to young competitors playing sports. Just the fact that the sheer number of young athletes participating has gone up over the last several decades, would automatically cause an upswing in the number of young sports enthusiasts having to seek medical attention. There is just an inherent physical risk in competitive sports that cannot be denied.

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Deb Vee
Deb Vee

Great Article on the Pervasiveness of Steroid Use in Sports

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 23:28. | comments

I recently came across a piece that references true experts, like Dr. Yesalis, in a discussion regarding steroid use that I thought was good and important to direct attention to. The title of the blog article is Yesalis, Williams and Fainaru-Wada on steroid panel at Penn State: 95% of NFL players use HGH and it is from an online blog journal called Steroid Nation.

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Deb Vee
Deb Vee

Steroids in Professional Sports and Youth Sports, WHY?

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 22:30. | comments
Brooke de Lench
Brooke de Lench

How Can We Reduce The Number of Knee Injuries In Female Athletes?

Submitted by Brooke de Lench on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 23:36. | comments

The New York Times recently ran a thought provoking story by Michael Sokolove called The Uneven Playing Field . The long and short of the article was that the bodies of female athletes, especially their knees, are taking a beating playing sports.

The New York Times recently ran a thought provoking story by Michael Sokolove called The Uneven Playing Field
. The long and short of the article was that the bodies of female
athletes, especially their knees, are taking a beating playing sports.

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Brooke de Lench
Brooke de Lench

Concussion Bill of Rights #5: Neuropsychological Testing for Athletes In Contact Sports

Submitted by Brooke de Lench on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 21:02. | comments

With several recent studies demonstrating the clinical value of neuropsychological (NP) testing in evaluating the cognitive effects of and recovery from sport-related concussions, such testing has become increasingly popular in recent years, with the 2008 Zurich consensus statement on sports concussions1 viewing NP testing as an "aid in the clinical decisionmaking process" and an "important component in any return to play protocol." 

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Brooke de Lench
Brooke de Lench

Concussion Bill of Rights #3: Adoption and Enforcement of Conservative Evaluation & Return-to-Play Guidelines

Submitted by Brooke de Lench on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 20:54. | comments

The sad fact, and what makes it sometimes hard for parents to truly believe that programs are taking concussions seriously, is that many of the sports programs in which their children participate do not follow any set of return-to-play guidelines, and if they do follow guidelines, they are too liberal in terms of same-day return-to-play (RTP). When parents are kept in the dark like that, when they have no clue as to how a program treats concussions, their anxiety level naturally goes up.

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Stretching, Warm Ups and Cool Downs Prevent Youth Sports Injuries

While not all youth sports injuries are preventable, sport specific strength and conditioning training and adequate rest between games go a long way in preventing both serious and minor injuries. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommends that children and adolescents include fitness exercises during each training session to develop specific skills required for that sport. While fitness activities may be geared towards the strength, endurance and flexibility requirements of that sport, they should not exclude other components of a well-rounded general fitness program.

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What Are Anabolic Steroids And How Do They Work?

Anabolic steroids - more properly termed anabolic-androgenic steroids - are synthetic derivatives of testosterone - the hormone that makes a man a man.

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Better Family Health: More Fruits and Vegetables, Regular Exercise Good First Steps

Healthier families include 5 to 9 servings of fruit and vegetables each day. A healthier family is also on the move, so include at least 30 minutes of moderate activity everyday, such as walking. These simple changes are easier than you think and help to improve your entire family's health.

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Sports Head and Neck Injury Statistics

Not surprisingly, football had the most head and neck injuries of any team sport during the period:

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