When Kids Focus on 1 Sport, Overuse Injuries Rise
By Maureen Salamon
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 22, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Young athletes specializing in one sport may hope it's a ticket to an athletic scholarship in college, but a new analysis suggests the practice might also doom them to overuse injuries.
Pulling data from five prior studies, scientists found that athletes aged 18 and younger who concentrated on a single sport were nearly two times more likely to sustain an overuse injury from repeatedly taxing the same muscles and joints than peers who played multiple sports.
https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20180822/when-kids-focus-on-1-sport-overuse-injuries-rise#1
