Children and Marathoning: How Young Is Too Young?

From Pediatric Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey—Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey (Dr Rice); Fellow in Sports Medicine, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, New Jersey (Dr Waniewski). Received for publication July 2003; accepted July 2003. This statement was unanimously approved at the IMMDA General Assembly, Fall 2001. This article was editorially prepared for publication by an IMMDA committee of Drs. Steve Van Camp, MD, FACSM (Chair), Lewis G. Maharam, MD, FACSM; Pedro Pujol, MD, FACSM; and Jan Thorsall, MD. Address correspondence to: Lewis G. Maharam, MD, FACSM, Chairman IMMDA Board of Governors at 24 West 57th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10019, 212-765-5763.