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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Katherine Starr: Safe4Athletes' Founder Fighting To Keep Kids Safe From Sexual Abuse, Harassment, and Bullying

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Tue, 04/29/2014 - 16:24. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, as the month draws to a close, we hear from Katherine Starr, a former two-time Olympic swimmer and founder of Safe4Athletes, an advocacy and educational non-profit fighting to keep athletes safe from sexual abuse, harassment and bullying.

A former two-time Olympic swimmer talks about why she founded Safe4Athletes, an advocacy and educational non-profit fighting to keep athletes safe from sexual abuse, harassment and bullying.
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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Toben Nelson: Raising Awareness About Link Between Sports Participation And Risk of Heavy Drinking

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Thu, 04/24/2014 - 18:00. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year. 

Today, we hear from Toben Nelson, Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health at the University of Minnesota.

By Toben F. Nelson, ScD

A professor of public health discusses the link between athletics and underage drinking and the role parents can play in protecting their children from the problems associated with excessive drinking by teen athletes.
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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Michael Goldenberg: Year-Round Play And Pressure To Play In Pain Lead To Overuse Injuries

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Wed, 04/23/2014 - 21:50. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.  Michael Goldenberg Athletic Director Lawrenceville School

Today, we hear from Michael Goldenberg, an Athletic Trainer at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

By Michael S. Goldenberg, MS, ATC 

A longtime athletic trainer at one of the nation's leading prep schools attributes the epidemic of overuse injuries in high school sports to early specialization, the intense pressure kids are under in today's youth sports to continue playing in pain, and the lack of proper medical care at the pre-high school level.
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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Deb Bowen: "Aha" Moment After Son's Injury Inspired Career Teaching Yoga To Teen Athletes

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Wed, 04/16/2014 - 14:07. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear from certified yoga instructor, Deb Bowen. 

A sports mom tells how she was inspired by her son's overuse injury to become a certified yoga teacher so she could bring the physical and mental benefits of yoga to teen athletes.
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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Don Hooton: Making A Difference In The Fight Against Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Thu, 04/03/2014 - 12:39. | comments

A couple of years ago, in recognition of April as Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.  

Again this year, we are reprising some of those blogs, including this one by a good friend of MomsTEAM, Don Hooton, Sr., president of the Taylor Hooton Foundation. His story, and the work his foundation is doing to educate America's youth and adult influencers about the dangers of Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs (APEDs) and to equip adult leaders to engage, is an inspiration to youth sports safety activists everywhere.  

Today, we are honored to hear the story of Don Hooton, Sr. of the Taylor Hooton Foundation, which is working to educate America's youth and adult influencers about the dangers of Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs.
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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

National Youth Sports Safety Month: Some Progress, But Still A Long Way To Go

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Mon, 03/31/2014 - 17:14. | comments

By Brooke de Lench

A solid foundation 

When the non-profit 501(c)(3) National Youth Sports Safety Foundation (NYSSF) was formed in 1989, its mission was to provide information on the prevention of youth sports injuries. It got its start after Rita Glassman's young daughter Michelle suffered a severe back injury which ended her tennis career. Rita was the first to designate April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, which MomsTeam has been celebrating every year since 2001.

In celebration of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTEAM is re-posting many of the blog entries contributed in 2012 by some our favorite sports medicine and safety experts and sprinkling in some new ones.
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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Youth Sports Safety Month Blogging Project: Inspirational and Educational

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 15:04. | comments

Today marks the final day of our special month long APRIL IS YOUTH SPORTS SAFETY MONTH. It has been wildly popular, with many people reporting that it was inspirational and educational.

This was our hope: to share with communities just how important it is for every youth athlete, every team, and every sports program to have an athletic trainer, a nutritionist, a physical therapist, an orthopedic surgeon and so many more at the ready, not just to treat sports injuiries when they occur, but to prevent them from occurring in the first place.

Today marks the final day of our special month long APRIL IS NATIONAL YOUTH SPORTS SAFETY MONTH. It has been wildly popular, with many people reporting that it was inspirational and educational.
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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Neal Alpiner (Exercise Medicine Specialist): Helps Guide Athletes and Families Through Concussion Maze

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 20:28. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam has asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear from Neal Alpiner, MD, a exercise medicine specialist in Royal Oak, Michigan.

By Neal Alpiner, MD

A physician board certified in both Pediatrics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) allows him to evaluate and treat patients with a wide variety of needs, from musculoskeletal to orthopedic to neurologic conditions.
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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

C. David Geier, Jr. (Orthopedic Surgeon): Helped Lacrosse Player Win State Title

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 17:52. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts in 2012 to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear again from Dr. David Geier, an orthopaedic sports medicine surgeon and Director of Sports Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.

By C. David Geier, Jr, MD

An orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine doctor talks about helping a young lacrosse player return to the field in time to help his team win the state championship.
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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Edward Feldman (Chiropractor): Feldenkrais Method Helped Rock Climber Recover From Serious Leg Fractures

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 15:19. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam has asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear from Edward Feldman, a chiropractor and certified CranioSacral therapist and Feldenkrais teacher from Kingston, New Jersey.

By Edward H. Feldman, DC, RCST

A Doctor of Chiropractic explains how the use of the Feldenkrais Method allowed an athlete to walk without a cane and with less pain after he fractured both his tibia and fibia while rock climbing.
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