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Researchers are conducting studies to determine whether PFAS and other chemicals detected in turf can end up on athletes and pose a risk to their health.
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Accidents happen and kids get injured. But how can you tell if it needs an icepack, a physio or a trip to the emergency department?
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Allowing children to play impact sports, such as rugby or boxing, amounts to a form of child abuse, researchers from three British universities said in a new study.
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They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head. If their families could go back, would they still let them play?
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Sports school academies are rising in popularity, offering an alternative to traditional education. But budding athletes have been warned of potential disappointment.
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Senate recommendations must go beyond concussion and look into the risk of the brain disease from environmental exposure
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Meiko Locksley was found to have had a degenerative brain disease often associated with football. His father, the head coach at Maryland, is still reckoning with the implications.
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is often assumed to be a disease which develops later in life, but a new study clearly shows it can start early in the brains of young athletes.
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Despite well-documented risks, up to 30 percent of youth athletes today play a single sport to the exclusion of others.
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Treatment for concussions in kids has changed in the past 10 years. A new study confirms the recent move away from prolonged days out of school.
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One longitudinal Australian study found children who drop out of sport between eight and ten years are at greater risk for social and emotional problems compared to those who continue in sport.
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Kids have structure during the school year which facilitates regular physical activity and healthy eating habits. But this ends during school holidays. How can we maintain these healthy habits?
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While much of the inquiry into concussions and repeated head trauma in sport will focus on professional players and leagues, local teams and young players should also look out for the findings.
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“No sport should accept repetitive head impacts before the age of 14,” Nowinski told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. “Let’s start there. Parents don’t hit their own child in the head, and we need to remove this cultural veil, in that it happening in sports is OK for the developing brain. It’s not.
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Policies to protect children in sport have been poorly understood by coaches and sports organisations. What can we do to ensure kids are safe but are also getting the most out of playing sport?
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The message our children receive loud and clear is that sport is all about competition. It’s no wonder so many leave it behind.
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Fraizer took up golf in lockdown to exercise safely with his condition - now he can't stop winning.
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We all know competitive parents. Is the reason they get so pushy not actually about their kids at all?
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Amid intense focus at elite level exclusive new data reveals a sharply growing but hidden toll from head knocks every weekend in parks and on ovals around Australia.
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Focusing on fun and exposure to new games helps build skills and interest.
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Health and physical education includes subjects such as sport science, health studies, athlete development, food and nutrition, outdoor and environmental studies, and sport and recreation.
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The goal should be to take measures to avoid athletic injuries — or at least minimize their severity — and keep kids in the game.
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Nine in ten parents agree school uniforms should support their kids to be active. That's only one reason schools should let kids wear sports uniforms. They're also cheaper and kids prefer them.
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In-line skating, soccer, hockey — my 5-year-old didn’t take to them. Was I doing something wrong?
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Women and girls face double the risk of concussion and developing brain injuries from playing sport, but the issue is largely being ignored, MPs have been told.
Dr Willie Stewart, a consultant neuropathologist at the University of Glasgow and a leading researcher into brain injuries in sport, said he had growing concerns over the potential long-term consequences for women and called for urgent research.