OBJECTIVE To provide certified athletic trainers, physicians, and other health care professionals with recommendations on best practices for the prevention of overuse sports injuries in pediatric athletes (aged 6-18 years). BACKGROUND Participation in sports by the pediatric population has grown tremendously over the years. Although the health benefits of participation in competitive and recr...

Though mountain bikers are at significant risk for overuse injury, there is minimal quality research describing this relationship. Single-speed mountain biking, in which participants pedal a bike with only a single gear, may place riders at even greater risk for overuse problems due to the disproportionate physical effort associated with this type of riding. The focus of this study was to provi...

THE FREQUENCY OF OVERUSE INJURIES IN CHILDREN HAS INCREASED IN RECENT YEARS. INCREASED INTEREST IN SPORTS AS WELL AS THE INCREASE IN SPORTS SPECIALIZATION BY CHILDREN IS ONE CAUSE. EXTRINSIC AND INTRINSIC FACTORS PREDISPOSE AN INDIVIDUAL TO OVERUSE INJURIES, BUT ONE SYSTEMATIC CAUSE IS IMPROPER TRAINING. OVERUSE INJURIES RESULT FROM REPEATED SUBMAXIMAL STRESS FOLLOWED BY INADEQUATE RECOVERY. CH...

Health services overuse has been acknowledged as a relevant policy issue. In this study, we assessed the informative value of research on the quality of cancer care, exploring to what extent it is actually concerned with care overuse, thus providing policy-makers with sound estimates of overuse prevalence. We searched Medline for European studies, reporting information on the rate of use of dia...