Epidemiology of Overuse Injuries in Collegiate and High School Athletics in the United States

More than 7 million adolescents regularly compete in high school athletics each year in the United States.1 Most will undergo a limited, sports-oriented preparticipation evaluation before competition.2 This type of examination has been performed for many years to satisfy various legal, academic, and organizational requirements. However, the health care benefits to the teenagers themselves have not been analyzed objectively using direct comparison to the standard history and physical. At present, the value of the sports physical remains unproven and its efficacy has not been clearly established. In addition, the potential negative impact on delivery of comprehensive medical services to adolescents deserves further emphasis in the literature and, therefore, will be the focus of this commentary.

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Epidemiology Of Overuse Injuries Among High-School Athletes In The United States

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise ◽

10.1249/01.mss.0000495791.41055.3d ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 764

Author(s):

Allison N. Schroeder ◽

R. Dawn Comstock ◽

Christy L. Collins ◽

Joshua Everhart ◽

David Flanigan ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

High School ◽

The United States ◽

Overuse Injuries ◽

High School Athletes

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Social functions of high school athletics in the United States: a historical and comparative analysis

Sport in Society ◽

10.1080/17430430903137936 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 12 (9) ◽

pp. 1236-1249 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ruud Stokvis

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

High School ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

The United States ◽

High School Athletics ◽

Social Functions

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The Effect of Psychological Factors on Athletic Injury and Recuperation

Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences ◽

10.33140/jhss.03.02.06 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

High School ◽

Incidence Rate ◽

Psychological Factors ◽

The United States ◽

Athletic Injury ◽

Health It ◽

High School Athletics ◽

Collegiate Sports ◽

Negative Role

In spite of the evident benefits of exercise on health, it is also an irrefutable fact that exercise and injury come together as well. Over a million injuries occur each year in the United States alone, and that only counts collegiate sports; should we factor in high school athletics, professional leagues, gyms and street athletes, the incidence rate would be astounding, affecting millions of Americans. Prior research shows that injury comes from training, more that from competition. It also shows that athletes keep on training in spite of their injuries because of the pressure to compete. This project shows that psychology plays a negative role in the rate and incidence of injury; but that a positive disposition on the part of the athlete goes on to contribute in the injured athlete’s recovery. Coaches and sports federations must address the psychological factors that adversely affect injury and positively affect recovery as much as they now focus on the medical aspects of injury and recovery.

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