Highlights the unique clinical and social challenges in managing chronic orthopedic problems in young athletes.
The young athlete presents problems for the doctor in sports medicine that are not present in the senior high school or older athlete. Growth spurts, sexual development and altered life standards all play their part. The parents, their goals for their children, the coaches and the milieu in which the young athlete lives must influence the physician in his decisions regarding this athlete.
Bernard R. Cahill (1973) studied this question.