Gottschalk Andrew William, Andrish Jack T
Department of Orthopaedics, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Sports Med Arthrosc Rev. 2011 Mar;19(1):2-6. doi: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e31820b95fc.
In the United States, youth interest in sports participation has increased steadily over the past 2 decades. Although such trends are encouraging to the medical community, especially given the concurrent obesity epidemic among American youth, this increase in sports participation is accompanied by an increase in rates of sports injury in the pediatric population. Appropriate diagnosis and treatment of these injuries by primary care and orthopedic providers rests heavily on a fundamental understanding of the epidemiology of such pathologies.
在美国，在过去20年里，青少年参与体育运动的兴趣稳步上升。尽管这种趋势令医学界感到鼓舞，尤其是考虑到美国青少年中同时存在的肥胖流行情况，但体育运动参与的增加伴随着儿科人群运动损伤发生率的上升。初级保健和骨科医疗人员对这些损伤进行恰当的诊断和治疗，在很大程度上依赖于对这类病症流行病学的基本了解。
