Youth Sports: Start Here: Everything You Need To Know About Promoting Health And Preventing Injury For Your Young Athlete

Among the estimated thirty-five million young athletes in the U.S., high schoolathletes account for approximately two million injuries, half a million doctor visits,and thirty thousand hospitalizations annually. And that's just high school! Three-and-a- half million youth athletes receive medical treatment for sports injuries and12,500 college athletes are reported injured every year.Did you know that overuse is the cause of nearly half of those injuries?Or that nearly a quarter of all traumatic brain injuries among U.S. childrenhappen during participation in sports activities?And yet, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, half of ourchildren's sports injuries are preventable!Julie A. Buckley, MD, and Baltimore Raven Eugene Monroe are both parentsof active, sports-oriented youngsters themselves. In Youth Sports: Start Here, theycombine the universal concern they share with all parents to protect their children'shealth with Dr. Buckley's twenty years as a pediatrician and functional medicinespecialist and Eugene's hands-on professional sports experience to create acomprehensive guide that empowers parents to help their children prevent injury,to recognize the sometimes-subtle signs an injury has occurred or may occur, and toheal the injuries that almost all energetic kids will, at one point or another,inevitably sustain.Accessible science, practical advice, and fun ways to get your kids invested intheir own health--Youth Sports: Start Here is a valuable guide for every parentraising his or her own, home-grown champion.

Author: Julie A. Buckley|Eugene Monroe

Publisher: Water Street Press

Publication Date: Mar 15, 2016

Number of Pages: 238 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 162134200X

ISBN-13: 9781621342007