Top Form Athletics

In America, 35 million children and young adults between the ages of 6 and 21 participate in sports. Approximately 22% of those participants, suffer injuries every year. 

Reinjuries May Lead to Chronic Conditions
Many  injuries are inadequately treated. This process of injury, inadequate treatment, incomplete healing and reinjury reduces the chance of sports careers and sets the stage for chronic conditions  later in life.

For example, severe trauma injuries to the top of  the leg and hip during high school and college sports, has been  traced to the eventual need for a hip replacement in men 35 to 45 years of age. Why? It caused reduced blood flow and degeneration of  the head of the femur.

Vulnerable Young Bodies

The American College of Sports Medicine points out that during peak growth velocity, ages 10 to 12  for girls and ages 13 to 15 for boys, young athletes are most vulnerable to injury in “growth plate” areas of cartilage and soft new bone at the top of the leg, the knee, ankle and elbow. 

Although colleges often have professional trainers,  high schools and grade schools often have volunteers with little training. Therefore, parents should learn  to spot potential problems and explore what care must be given by pros and what could be administered at home.

Simple Ways to Accelerate Healing
Today, a new breed of athletic trainers and physical therapists in professional sports are using innovative energy-based high tech devices for repairing prize athletes and reducing reinjury. On their own, many professional athletes are relaxing their sore bodies by sleeping on magnetic mattress and using hand held devices to accelerate healing of specific soft tissue injuries.

“Could that approach benefit young athletes.”