No matter how much young athletes love their sport, they remain vulnerable to mental health and well-being problems if they ...

Injuries are an unfortunate part of all that comes with high school football, but doctors here in Western Pennsylvania have ...

An orthopedic surgeon who worked with the New York Mets explains why early specialization in youth sports raises ACL injury ...

A study conducted by Emory Sports Medicine physician Neeru Jayanthi, MD, recommends that young athletes should not specialize in sports before age 12, train more hours per week then their age, and ...

More and more children today play intense competitive sports. They need experts who know how to treat sports injuries—and how to care for kids. Our team includes pediatric sports medicine doctors, ...

USA Football has become the first football organization to formally define "full contact" during practice sessions and has ...

As an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine, Dr. Brian Brislin considers himself a sort of “last line” of defense when it comes to athletic injuries. Athletes may see an athletic trainer ...

For young athletes, sport should be fun first. Importantly, this does not mean that sport cannot also be competitive. And it certainly does not mean kids should not work hard, care deeply, or want to ...

CHRISTUS Health Shreveport-Bossier is scheduling a 12-week Saturday Sports Injury Clinic from August 29 to November 14 to provide student-athletes with orthopedic evaluations, emergency services, and ...

A local youth athlete has made the quarterfinals of the Sports Illustrated Youth Athlete of the Year. 11-year-old Jessa Hurtado is the only girl on her Lodi Colts football team, where she plays ...