Performance

Fueling for Home Runs: Nutrition Tips for Young Baseball Players

Fueling for Home Runs: Nutrition Tips for Young Baseball Players

While baseball may not be considered an endurance sport or immediately thought of as a power sport, it still demands a level of energy and strength for successful catches, pitches, hits and runs. Additionally, baseball requires concentration, fine motor skills and...

Recognizing Athletes With Disordered Eating

Recognizing Athletes With Disordered Eating

A pediatric sports medicine physician and member of the Female and Male Athlete Triad Coalition, Jane S. Chung, M.D., shares the latest in energy availability and the consequences of under fueling for young athletes. Print the PDF Sports can place high demands on...

Preventing Injuries: What Young Dancers Need To Know

Preventing Injuries: What Young Dancers Need To Know

We asked sports medicine physical therapist Laura Saleem to tell us about hip injuries in dancers and how they can be prevented. Why do dancers commonly have hip pain? Dancers put their hips in extreme postures repeatedly and this can cause changes in the soft tissues...