Choosing a sport should be a family decision, says Lyle Micheli, MD., Director, Division of Sports
Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, involves many factors, including injury risks and benefits and whether it is a lifetime sport.
The extra time high school pitchers living in warm-weather climates spend in baseball activities puts them at greater risk of injuries to their pitching shoulders than their cold-weather peers, finds a first-of-its-kind study published in the February 2011 edition of the American Journal of Sports Medicine.