Sentences with phrase «while youth athletes»

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There are several large national organizations that provide sports and recreation programs for disabled youth athletes, while numerous local communities have implemented adaptive recreational programs though their parks and recreation departments.

While not mandated by law, best youth sports health and safety practices require that school, independent and community - based youth sports organizations develop, implement, and practice an emergency action plan (EAP) to protect the safety of athletes, spectators, coaches, and officials in case of a medical emergency.

While studies have not yet been performed using the K - D test in screening athletes at the youth and high school level, the long use of the test in diagnosing reading problems in children «gives me reason to be very optimistic that the test could help parents and coaches to determine whether an athlete who has been hit may have suffered a concussion,» Dr. Balcer told MomsTeam.

«While only parents and athletes in individual sports were examined in this study, I believe that the results may apply to parents of children in youth sports,» says Kaye.

While I will not be able to participate in the roundtable, it is probably just as well because, with MomsTEAM Institute's SmartTeams Play Safe summit in Boston in my rear view mirror, I am devoting all my energies the rest of the fall sports season to working with an incredibly talented and dedicated group of certified athletic trainers at the grass roots level on our SmartTeamTM pilot program, which is helping parents, coaches, administrators, and more than 800 athletes in youth football programs in six states play safe by being smart.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

Through collaborative research, education and distinctive athlete services and programs, our differentiating, evidenced - informed focus will help each youth athlete achieve individual athletic and sport success, while establishing a foundation for life - long fitness and health.

While sports specialization is recognized as one of the main concerns in youth sports today, and is linked to overuse injuries and sports burnout for young athletes, it remains a prevalent route for parents and athletes looking for an advantage to earn a college scholarship or to even make it to the pros.

While many positive changes have occurred in recent years to prioritize the developing brain of youth athletes, we will continue our commitment to finding the best methods of coaching, training and competing to insure that all athletes can enjoy playing the game and the myriad benefits from healthy participation in youth sport.

In the case of Olympic weightlifting training for adult and youth athletes not competing in Olympic weightlifting, the risk to assess is whether the injury incidence is greater than that of conventional resistance training, while the reward to assess is whether the enhancements in athletic performance measures are greater than those produced by conventional resistance training.