ARTICLES, SUGGESTED READING & VIDEOS

 

There is a flood of information online about the massive rise in youth sports injuries over the past decade, most of them by medical specialists for the medical community. We are pleased to see that more information is becoming mainstream so that parents and coaches are better educated and qualified to help prevent youth sports injuries.  We at AST Institute are working to affect change in youth sports.  We know that the epidemic of sports injuries will never be addressed without education on the front lines (i.e. parents, students and coaches). 

 

For further reading, here are some articles that we suggest:

 

ARTICLES

 

Sports and Quality of Life

 

• "Active Kids Do Better in School", by Nicole Nichols, Fitness Instructor and Health Educator

A recent study conducted by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) investigated the link between physical activity in children and academic performance in school. Initially, researchers predicted that kids who took physical education (PE) during the school day would do better academically....READ MORE.

 

 

 

Overall Sports Safety

 

• "Pascrell, Menendez Push Comprehensive Youth Sports Safety Legislation", Press Release, Congressman Bill Pascrell (NJ-09), Sept 8, 2014

ENGLEWOOD, NJ – In response to the troubling increase in youth sports-related injuries, Congressman Bill Pascrell (NJ-09) and U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today joined current and former NFL players, safety and health experts, student athletes and school athletic officials at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood to announce the Supporting Athletes, Families and Educators to Protect the Lives of Athletic Youth (known as the "SAFE PLAY Act”)...READ MORE.

 

 

• "1.35 Million Youths a Year Have Serious Sports Injuries", U.S.A. Today, by Michelle Healy, August 6, 2013

Occasional bumps and bruises are expected when kids play sports, but for more than 1.35 million children last year a sports-related injury was severe enough to send them to a hospital emergency department...READ MORE.

 

 

 

 

Repetitive Stress / Overuse Injuries

 

• "Young female athletes suffering epidemic of ACL Injuries", Research Loyola University Health System:  April 30, 2014

Female athletes who play basketball and soccer are two-to-eight times more likely to suffer an ACL injury compared to male athletes, according to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine...READ MORE.

 

 

• "Prevention of ACL Injuries in Adolescent Female Athletes", by Aisha Dharamsi MD, Cynthia LaBella MD, July 1, 2013

Over the past 20 years, the number of young athletes presenting with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries has increased, primarily because of the growing number of children participating in competitive sports at an early age and exposure to more intense levels of training, along with increasing awareness and detection of such injuries.1-3 Female adolescent athletes have the greatest risk of ACL injuries, with rates 4 to 6 times as high as for their male counterparts in similar sports...READ MORE.

 

 

• "Knee Injuries on the Rise in Child and Adolescent Athletes", American Academy of Pediatrics, December 16, 2011

BOSTON – Sports-related knee injuries in children and adolescents seem to be increasing at an alarming rate. Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia noted a more than 400 percent increase in these injuries at their institution over the last decade, according to new research presented on Sunday, Oct. 16, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in Boston...READ MORE.

 

 

• "The Nasiest Injury in Sports", by Neal Gabler, dated December 10, 2013

To be honest, it doesn’t look like much. It’s short, just over an inch in length, and stubby, about half an inch wide. It is white, slick, and striated like a cluster of angel-hair pasta. It isn’t rubbery, and it doesn’t have much elasticity. In fact, you wouldn’t give it a second thought — not until it self-destructed, which it occasionally does, always at the most inopportune of times. And then you wouldn’t think about much else but that gremlin that now sits at the center of so many of our games...READ MORE.

 

 

Concussion Injuries

 

 

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VIDEOS

 

 

• Q13 Fox News, Seattle, WA dated April 28, 2015 - Kaci Aitchison Interview with Dr. Cora Breuner of Seattle Children's Hospital on "Child Overuse Injuries in Sports"