Though the return to winter sport is exciting for most, it also means a number of players are going to experience injuries of some form or another. These includes concussions. A concussion is defined as an injury to the brain that temporally affects brain function....
Children are not small adults, so when they injure themselves we look to manage them differently from adults. How different this management is depends partly on their age, but also their previous injury history and level of maturity. For many children involved in sport, their first injury that interferes...
Anecdotally weight training for children and adolescents (youth) has not been considered safe. This can be backed by Emergency Centre data which showed that over 100,000 children (5-18years) presented to emergency departments in the USA during 2000 – 2004.(1) Many more may have been injured...
The safe return to sport for an athlete is a decision based individually and dependent on multiple factors including their health status, the injury sustained, the injury management received, as well as many other factors. In assessing the athlete and these factors, one is only...
Shin Splints is a common usage term for pain felt along the inner or outer border of the tibia (the shin bone). As it is not a diagnosis, it only describes the symptoms and not the actual cause of the problem. The cause is inflammation...