With all the recent media attention surrounding the dangers of concussions in professional athletes, parents are appropriately reluctant to let their children play contact sports. Is playing a sport as a child more likely to make you remain active into adulthood? What are the most common sports injuries? Are concussions common and how will you know if your child has one? What are the appropriate steps to take before returning to play? Learn all this and more in this episode, covering the topic of youth sports and the associated injuries, with an emphasis on concussions.
This episode written by Dr. Lena Rothstein and Dr. Dean Blumberg.
We thank Dr. Nicole Friel MD from Shriners Hospital for Children Northern California for reviewing this topic, although Drs. Lena and Dean are responsible for any errors or misinformation.
Supplemental material:

* Healthy Children Concussions

* YMCA Y-Assist Program

* The Aspen Project Sport Participation And Physical Activity Rates

* British Journal of Sports Medicine Consensus statement on concussion in sport—the 5th international conference on concussion in sport held in Berlin, October 2016

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