By Dr. Kristina DeMatas To prepare each student for the fall sports season in the US, a medical professional must carry out a preparticipation physical evaluation (PPE). This ensures that young athletes are medically able to engage in sports and have a good current health status. The PPE is guided by the following organizations: American Academy of […]
Tag: Young Athletes
Young athletes are not small adult athletes: A Junior Doctor`s perspective of the first Young Athletes Forum Convention
Swiss Junior Doctors and Undergraduate Perspective on Sport and Exercise Medicine Blog Series By Karsten Königstein and Justin Carrard, @CarrardJustin The first Young Athletes Forum Convention (YAF) recently took place in Montreux, Switzerland. World leading experts from sports science and sports medicine met with other stakeholders to discuss the hottest topics in relation to young […]
Optimising Health, Fitness and Sports Performance for young people
Part-1 of the blog mini-series on youth By Dr Nicky Keay Young people need information in order to make life decisions on their health, fitness and sport training with the support of their families, teachers and coaches. As discussed in my previous blog anima sana in corpore sano, exercise has a positive effect on all aspects of […]
Sleep for health and sports performance
“Sleep.. chief nourisher in life’s feast,” Macbeth. By Dr Nicky Keay A recovery strategy vital to support both health and sport performance, during all stages of the training cycle is sleep. In this blog I outline the importance of sleep for athletes of all ages and calibres. Young athletes Sufficient sleep is especially important in young athletes […]
Team physio for the Commonwealth Youth Games- 40 hours of travel, 2 lost bags, 10 medals, and countless learning experiences
By Stuart Butler @PhysioButler Travelling as a Sports Physiotherapist with Team England for the September 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa is always an honour but also comes with responsibilities. The games saw up to 1000 young Commonwealth Athletes between 14 and 18 represent their countries and compete for 107 Gold Medals over 9 days. The 2 […]
Missed the ACPSEM Biennial Young Athlete conference? Not to worry- here are some highlights with links to key resources
Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sport and Exercise Medicine blog series @PhysiosinSport CONFERENCE REPORT By Zachary Spargo (@ZachSpargo) The Physios in Sport (ACPSEM) Biennial Young Athlete Conference was in no uncertain terms an absolute classic! Great speakers, hot topics, lots of networking and above all – mini burgers for lunch! The focus was on managing […]
Physiotherapy and ‘The Young Athlete’: Education, advocacy, and the upcoming ACPSEM biennial conference
Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports & Exercise Medicine blog series @PhysiosinSport By Claire Treen @ClaireTreen In recent months, politicians in the UK have – quite rightly – talked a lot about the NHS. However, perhaps because many teens don’t vote, we don’t hear as much about the challenges of bone growth, adolescent and young adult […]
Supporting young athletes to stay (and excel) in sport: what’s the role of the medical team? And what does expanding our view of maturation have to do with it?
By Sam Blanchard (@SJBPhysio_sport) Age is just a number, right? Or is that just something adults say to convince ourselves our body clock is ticking differently to the kitchen clock and the seemingly more frequent turns of the calendar? When working with young athletes I think these two clocks are undoubtedly out of synch. Line up three […]