Language:

Health Consequences of Youth Sport Specialization

Journal of athletic training, 2019-10, Vol.54 (10), p.1040-1049 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright National Athletic Trainers Association Oct 2019 ;by the National Athletic Trainers' Association, Inc 2019 2019 ;ISSN: 1062-6050 ;EISSN: 1938-162X ;DOI: 10.4085/1062-6050-380-18 ;PMID: 31633420

Full text available

Citations Cited by

Actions
1. Add to My Research
2. Remove from My Research
3. E-mail
4. Print
5. Permalink
6. Citation
7. EasyBib
8. EndNote
9. RefWorks
10. Delicious
11. Export RIS
12. Export BibTeX

Title:
Health Consequences of Youth Sport Specialization
Author: Jayanthi, Neeru A ; Post, Eric G ; Laury, Torrance C ; Fabricant, Peter D
Subjects: Adolescent ; Age ; Athletes ; Athletic Injuries - prevention & control ; Child ; Cumulative Trauma Disorders - epidemiology ; Cumulative Trauma Disorders - etiology ; High school baseball ; Humans ; Medicine ; Narrative Reviews ; Participation ; Researchers ; Risk Factors ; Specialization ; Sports injuries ; Sports medicine ; Sports Medicine - methods ; Sports Medicine - standards ; Stress, Psychological - etiology ; Stress, Psychological - prevention & control ; Teams ; Teenagers ; Tennis ; Youth ; Youth Sports - physiology ; Youth Sports - psychology ; Youth Sports - standards
Is Part Of: Journal of athletic training, 2019-10, Vol.54 (10), p.1040-1049
Description: Sport specialization is a training method now commonly used by young athletes who hope to achieve elite-level success. This may be defined as (1) choosing a main sport, (2) quitting all other sports to focus on 1 sport, and (3) year-round training (greater than 8 months per year). A number of sports medicine organizations have published recommendations based on the limited evidence available on this topic. The objective of this article was to perform a narrative review of the currently available evidence and sports medicine organizational recommendations regarding sport specialization and its effects on health to guide athletic trainers and sports medicine providers. To accomplish this goal, we conducted a narrative review of articles and position statements on sport specialization published from 1990 through 2018. Injury, overuse injury, serious overuse injury, and lower extremity injury were likely associated with higher degrees of sport specialization in various populations. Sports medicine organizations in general recommended against sport specialization in young athletes and instead promoted multisport participation for physical and psychological benefits. Few long-term data suggest that sport specialization has negative health-related quality-of-life consequences. Higher degrees of sport specialization likely pose risks of overuse injury; however, the age of specialization at which this risk occurs is not known. Because different populations and sports activities may put children at risk for certain injuries, future researchers should monitor large populations with sport-specific prospective active surveillance.
Publisher: United States: Allen Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1062-6050
EISSN: 1938-162X
DOI: 10.4085/1062-6050-380-18
PMID: 31633420
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
Freely Accessible Journals
MEDLINE
Open Access: Freely Accessible Journals by multiple vendors
PubMed Central
Alma/SFX Local Collection
ProQuest Central

Back to results list

Previous Result 13 Next Go to Next page


INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY	(84-028) 37 755 057	Feedback
19 Nguyen Huu Tho St. Dist.7, HCM	thuvien@tdtu.edu.vn	Feedback

Health Consequences of Youth Sport Specialization

Copyright National Athletic Trainers Association Oct 2019 ;by the National Athletic Trainers' Association, Inc 2019 2019 ;ISSN: 1062-6050 ;EISSN: 1938-162X ;DOI: 10.4085/1062-6050-380-18 ;PMID: 31633420

Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait