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Background Rock climbing is an increasingly popular sport worldwide and will debut in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Climbing places unique physical demands on pediatric athletes and carries inherent risks of… Click to show full abstract
Background Rock climbing is an increasingly popular sport worldwide and will debut in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Climbing places unique physical demands on pediatric athletes and carries inherent risks of injury. In many other sports, specialization has been shown to have deleterious effects on athletes, but this has not been studied within youth climbing. Additionally, few studies have explored injury epidemiology and risk factors in the pediatric climbing population. Our purpose was to evaluate how specialization and other potential risk factors are associated with injury and burnout in the pediatric …
Journal Title: Pediatrics
Year Published: 2021
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