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Keeping Our Children In the Game

The best way for parents to keep their children safe while playing sports is by becoming educated themselves. If parents are aware of the most common injuries in the sport their child is playing and how to prevent those injuries they can insist that their child’s program take the steps needed to keep them healthy and in the game.

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Featured Articles

  • Football Safety Tips
    Each year, more than 448,000 football-related injuries to youths under age 15 are treated in hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and hospital emergency rooms.
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  • Ankle Sprains: Parent's Role in Treatment, Recovery and Return to Play
    Ankle sprains are common in sports. Here's advice on what should be done when your child suffers an ankle sprain, how to know when your child is ready to return to sports, and what he should do when he returns.
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  • Mouth Guards Reduce Number and Severity of Dental Injuries, May Provide Some Protection Against Concussion
    A mouth guard is a piece of soft plastic shaped to fit inside the mouth, protecting the lips, cheeks, tongue and teeth and the jaw when they are hit by large object - like a ball, or someone's elbow or head. Mouth guards help prevent injury to the mouth, teeth, lips, cheeks and tongue. Whether they also protect against concussion is unclear. What is clear is that mouth guards are an important piece of safety equipment that should not be overlooked.
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  • Parents Bill of Rights for Concussion Safety
    The only way parents can sit in the stands without worrying sick about what might happen if their son or daughter suffers a concussion is if they know the program takes concussions very seriously, and that every member of the team - coach, athletic trainer, athlete, parent, and team doctor - is following the same playbook, or what I call the the Parent's Bill of Rights for Concussion Safety.
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  • Recent Consensus Statement Jettisons Grading Scale, Classifies Concussions as Simple or Complex
    The 2nd International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Prague in 2004 jettisons the concussion grading scales that attempt to predict severity at the time of injury to classify concussions as either "simple" or "complex" based on how long it takes for all post-concussion signs and symptoms to clear, and neurological and cognitive function to return to pre-injury level (e.g. baseline).
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