Comparison of injury patterns among highly specialized athletes in individual, team, and repetitive motion team sports
Among highly specialized youth athletes, individual sport and RMTS athletes had similar proportions of overuse injuries, and both had a higher proportion of overuse injuries than non-RMTS athletes. Preliminary evidence suggests that RMTS athletes may share some risk characteristics with individual sport athletes, which may help guide future research into injury patterns in this group to help better inform clinicians in counseling highly specialized youth athletes regarding overuse injuries.
Authors
- Laura F. Sandoval (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5553-7452)
- Jamie Burgess
- Cynthia R. LaBella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5982-8740)
- Pranav Bajaj
- Daniel E. McLoughlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3697-9623)
- Soyang Kwon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9359-704X)
- Patrick Murday (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9825-900X)
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- Lurie Children's Hospital (US)
- Lurie Children's Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Physician and Sportsmedicine
- Published
- 2025-10-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00913847.2025.2580924
- Primary Topic
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00