To prevent injuries, young athletes may need to play more just for fun

Friday, January 11, 2013 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

One way to avoid injuries in young athletes may be for them to simply spend more time in unorganized free play such as pick-up games, a new has found. Researchers found that injured young athletes who play a single sport such as tennis spent much less time in free play and unorganized sports than uninjured athletes who play tennis and many other sports.

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