Parents whose kids are athletes should demand better safety protocols.

Because head injuries and broken bones could affect children for the rest of their lives

Because it is irresponsible to allow our children to be put in harm's way?

Because it would help convince more parents to enroll kids into these activities

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who would be afftected

who would be affected?

parents

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coaches

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restrictions on ages that would play certain sports

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who would be affected

children

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money

The most commonly injured areas of the body include the ankle and knee followed by the hand, wrist, elbow, shin and calf, head, neck and clavicle. Contusions and strains are the most common injuries sustained by young athletes. In early adolescence, apophysitis or strains at the apophyses are common. The most common sites are at the knee
(Osgood-Schlatter disease), at the heel (Sever’s disease) and at the elbow (Little League Elbow). Pg. 75

Half of all children aged 5–18 years in the US are thought to participate in organised sports programmes.[1] This means that an estimated 30 million school-age children are involved in sports,

Overall, baseball had the highest proportion of reported head injuries (relative to all injuries) at 35.0% (1854/5300), followed by ice hockey at 27.2% (11 423/ 42 029), football (16.3%; 3635/22 264) and soccer at 15.9% (7326/46 102). Except for baseball, which remained relatively stable, football, soccer and ice hockey show a 42%–47% increase in the proportion of head injuries in 2014 compared to 2004.
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“I asked myself a question,” said Blethen. “Could I live with myself if a participant in our tackle football program were to become seriously injured, paralyzed or even worse?”

Ample opportunities for providing strategies for injury prevention to young athletes and their caregivers exist as sports-related injures comprise greater than 25% of adolescent injury visits to primary care settings
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Arizona Cardinals safety Deone Bucannon played two years of flag as a kid and still preaches its virtues. “I would recommend that all young kids play flag first, so they can get an idea of how to play the game without worrying about the physical part,”
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