...Experience The Debate Some college athletes and their supporters have debated over the years that students should be paid a salary. Those who are in disagreement argue that intercollegiate athletics should be viewed as one part of the college experience and not a career. They express that athletes are already receiving payment in the form of scholarships. But is it enough? Most scholarships cover approximately $20,000 to $35,000 worth of college expenses, including books, fees, tuition, and room and board (Brian, 2014). The Numbers Looking at the research provided by the National Athletic Trainer’s association, approximately 200,000 injuries are reported by college athletes caused by the strenuous nature of their sport (Thomas, 2014). Nearly 30% of these injuries have been chalked up to “over-use” injuries (injuries caused by long training sessions and repetitive motions), with women making up 62% of those injuries, and are more commonly found in low-contact sports. “Overuse injuries may present not only physical challenges but also psychological ones that could significantly affect an athlete’s recovery and performance” said Tracey Covassin, a co-author of a study for the Journal of Athletic Training publication that researches injuries and their impact on college athletes (Cody, 2012). Another aspect of this problem that needs attention is what happens to these student athletes that have career-ending or long-term disabilities due to injuries sustained during their college careers...
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...Across the United States there are hundreds of little league teams, whether it be t-ball, basketball, or football children start playing at a very young age. Starting children in sports can be a good thing. It can give them opportunities to learn new skills, learn the value of practice, teamwork, as well as provide a fun and effective way to exercise. However, starting children in sports as early as ages 6-7 could potentially burn the child out from sports or cause serious lifelong injury. At early ages like this children brain and body are still developing and have a long way to go. This brings up many questions, Should children be allowed to play competitive contact sports? And if so what kind of injuries could cause a lifelong developmental...
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...Sports Are Not Too Intense For Athletes As the season goes on and the record is getting better and better a team learns discipline and how to play as a team, then they start to play as a family. Many people think that sports are too intense for children. They think that there are too many injuries and deaths that come out of sports. Lots of parents are scared or nervous about their kids playing sports. Yes, there are injuries but playing on a sports team teaches athletes many things. While sports cause injuries, all of the benefits that come out of sports when athletes play them override the risks of getting an injury. First, there are many good effects when playing sports. Young athletes get a lot of positive outcomes out of sports. “Young athletes develop physical skills and learn how to play as a team and how to work as a team” (Hyman). Young athletes learn that it is not all about themselves it is about the...
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...hypothesizes that hyperspecialization in sports is harming kids and damaging youth sport in America. Epstein supports his claim by explaining that specializing in one sport at a young age has been proven to increase risks of injuries and has also lead to a lesser athletic success. He uses both arguments to support the negative effects of playing one sport by providing a variety of research that support his claim. However, Epstein emphasizes the idea of the performance benefits involved in playing multiple sports more effectively than he does supporting the argument that there have been increase risks of injuries for kids who hyperspecialize in one sport. The author does this by challenging the way we look at youth sports by providing...
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...claim that it for their kid, are parents the cause of many sports related injuries? Parents push their kids to specialize in the sport the parents want to see them in warranting injury because of overuse of the same muscles and ligaments. Parents add camps, trips to batting cages and summer sports to the wear and tear of their kids body. The number of student athlete injuries would decrease if parents would decrease the amount they push their children. “1.35 million youths a year have serious sports injuries” (USA Today). Varying anywhere from strains and sprains to concussions and lacerations. 9% of the 1.35 million are knee injuries just like I suffered myself. 14% suffered head trauma, such as concussions. These injuries are mostly related to the sport of football. Bo Jackson, one of the best football players ever to have career cut short by injury stated,...
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...The injuries that occur to the players during these sports have been around for just as long. The human body is not designed to take on blows over and over again in our lives, if it were our organs and structures would be made up of much stronger materials. The standards of today are based around an activity that has many negative outcomes. People have been building their whole lives around sports for a long time. Many men push schooling aside and focus on their career choice to be a pro athlete. Time and time again, however, the case arises where an athlete gets injured and in the blink of an eye their career as a pro is destroyed. Choosing to be a pro...
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...What is Tommy John Surgery? Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) Reconstruction, better known as Tommy John Surgery, is a procedure performed on the ligament that connects the bone of the upper arm, the humerus, to a bone in the forearm, the ulna. The UCL is a critical ligament in the elbow, and allows athletes, particularly baseball players, to throw a baseball at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour (MPH). A baseball player named Tommy John, a pitcher who played from 1963 to 1989, was the first person to ever have UCL reconstruction surgery. Due to the fact that John was the first player to be operated on, the surgery bears his namesake. Who was Tommy John? Tommy John was a professional baseball player that pitched for 7 different teams during his 26-year career. John injured his left pitching elbow during a game on July 17, 1974. He threw a pitch, as he had done many times before, and felt a sharp pain in his elbow upon releasing the ball. John was removed from the game, and was evaluated by the Los Angeles Dodgers team doctor, Dr. Frank Jobe. Jobe informed Tommy John that if he did not have surgery, his career would be over. The surgery had never yet been performed before Tommy John was injured. After months of evaluation and deliberation, John agreed to the surgery. On September 25, 1974, Tommy John became the first man to receive the experimental surgery. How is the surgery performed? Dr. Jobe decided to take a tendon from somewhere else in the body, ideally the...
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...Osgood-Schlatter; Robert Osgood and Carl Schlatter independently described this painful overuse condition of the tibial tuberosity in 1903. “Osgood-Schlatter disease is common in active adolescents, possibly caused by multiple small avulsion fractures from contractions of the quadriceps muscles at their insertion into the proximal tibial apophysis.” (Ilgen, 2013, p. 1). When a child complaints about pain and swelling under the patella, Osgood-Schlatter might be suspected (Moore, 2012). Osgood- Schlatter might be scary when you first hear the name, but it is not as bad as people think. Osgood-Schlatter is classified as an overuse injury because it is a progressive injury that happens over time. Moore believes the Osgood-Schlatter is caused...
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...Parents and Coaches need to Know? The pressures of club soccer are not only positive they can also be damaging to both families and their teens. An article by Dovepress wrote, “Pressure for early specialization to maximize athletic skills for future social, financial, and educational rewards is generated by parents, coaches, neighbors, society, and colleges” (Merkel). Parents and coaches play a large role in their teen’s life, and need to be aware of the types of physical and mental injuries that affect their teens. Parents also need to be aware of the pressures that they are not only putting on their teens but also the pressures that the family will come across. Physical and Mental Injuries After a game, does your teen complain of a popping noise in their knee, discomfort when walking, pain or swelling in their knee? There has been a trend in females who play soccer of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries. An ACL injury is a sprain or tear in a ligament in the knee, and if this injury is not...
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...Hurts America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids. By Mark Hyman. Beacon Press Boston, Massachusetts, 2009. ISBN-13:978-0-8070-2119-4 $15 paper. Youth sports today have made the sport less fun for the kids and more about the parent’s dreams and aspirations for their kids. This book is a perfect example of how youth sports have become an obsession for parents more than the players themselves. In Until It Hurts Mark Hyman gives the history of several youth sports and also talks about the relationships between parents and athletes. Mark Hyman wrote this book to help parents realize the mistakes they make when pushing kids too far and to the point of injury. The author uses explanation and analysis to present a subject or to clarify his idea. Hyman interviewed several parents, coaches, athletes, doctors, psychologists, tutors, college recruiters, and former professional athletes in his book telling stories about athletes who are pushed too hard and what sacrifices were made. As a parent it is hard to understand how parents go to these extremes for their children but Hyman does not criticize these parents he is only giving their side of the story. He understands this all too well because he was one of those parents with his own son Ben. Hyman’s son Ben was a baseball player who had played since he was little. In the introduction Hyman talks about finding a picture of his son out in the snow which he describes as being a perfect greeting card except his eighteen...
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...experiences” (Seefeldt & Ewing, 1996, p.3). Research has shown that children who participate in frequent physical activity, such as sports, experience improved academics, have better mental health, and are less likely to take part in risky health behaviors than their less active counterparts. Dr. Daniels, author of “Interscholastic Sports and the Middle School Student”, finds six main points of interest pertaining to the benefits of and liabilities for children who get involved in sports. Out of the six, four are beneficial, and only two are considered to be liabilities. The four positive characteristics of sports are scholastic achievement, competency, fitness, and self-esteem. Whereas the two negative characteristics are sports injuries, stress and anxiety (as cited by Daniels, 1999, p.2). Although Dr. Daniels doesn’t talk about it in her dissertation, one more benefit of kids getting active is their likelihood to avoid the appearance of evil, in other words they are unlikely to get involved in risky health behaviors such as, unprotected sex, drugs, gangs, and violence (Jones-Palm, Palm, 2004; Pate, Trost, Lexin, & Dowda, 2000; Seefeldt & Ewing, 1996). Since fitness is an obvious benefit of physical activity it will not be discussed in further detail as to how or why, however all other benefits and liabilities will be discussed in such detail. Academics...
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...Low back pain by young athletes; is practicing sports, prevention or a risk factor to develop low back pain? Ziva Tavcar, Msc Human Movement Science Clinique Valmont, Switzerland Introduction Low back pain is a common problem in a modern society and is present also among pre- and adolescents as well by young athletes. Relationship between low back pain and physical activity shows that physical and psychical factors of over active or inactive life-style lead among genetically predisposed individuals to a higher risk for low back pain. Thus better understanding of a problem, earlier diagnostic and right management prevent earlier apparition of recurrences and chronicity in adulthood. Spinal pain Spinal pain appears due to variety of symptoms, which are experienced at least once in a lifetime by approximately 80% of a general population [1]. Classification of spinal pain concerns affected region (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, or irradiation in the limbs), duration (acute, sub-acute, chronic), or level of functional disability [1]. Lumbar pain is determined as a pain, muscle tension or stiffness that occurs between the last thoracic vertebra and the lower gluteal folds, with or without leg pain [1–3]. Chronic low back pain appears more often by working population in adulthood [1] and fluctuates during time, appears at different occurrences with different intensities and disability [4]. The complexity of symptoms could be associated with physical, psychical and recently genetic...
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...In the case of children, this injury would be observed to affect their delicate and not fully developed brains in a more severe state even resulting in death. This book aims at exposing the National Football League governing the body of knowing the dire outcomes of prolonged football playing and their efforts to thwart research that points towards this...
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...Sports Injuries While researching further into the major of Physical Therapy, there was a topic that kept resurfacing. That topic was adolescent sports injuries and why/how they occur. Injuries from sports participation are a substantial cause of hospitals visits and medical bills. Sport injuries are the second leading cause of ER visits for adolescents. As I dived deeper into researching this topic I came across scholarly articles though places such as JSTOR, Google scholar, and more through the library databases. One of my favorite articles that I used throughout the semester was Taft’s. Although this article might be slightly out-of-date I think the information is still respectable and still truthful to the current date. Timothy...
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...the key elements in a girl’s adolescence is the proper development of self-esteem. Adequate self-esteem is a major component in the proper development of teenagers, especially females during the adolescent years. Without a good measure of self-esteem, young girls may grow up lacking basic skills needed to succeed in life; athletic involvement beginning at a young age is a good way to begin developing necessary social skills that will lead to greater self-esteem later in life. Although participation in sports can have a negative effect on teenage girls, the positive impact the sport has on them greatly outweighs the negative. Research has found that the most common negative effect of athletics on females is over training. Over training occurs when the body is pushed beyond its limits both physically and emotionally. The more females participate in sports, the higher the risk she has of obtaining a sports-related injury (Sabo, 1997, p. 38). The more competitive the sport is, the more training is needed in order to be successful, and this training can become risky to girls’ bodies. Girls tend to over-train under pressure, which in turn, leads to unnecessary injuries. Some of the most common injuries girls sustain due to overuse are stress fractures, kneecap disorders, and compartment syndromes (Storm & Jenkins, 2002, p. 164). According to Go Girl! Raising Healthy, Confident and Successful Girls Through Sports, a book written by Hannah Storm about girls participation in sports...
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