Prevention and Treatment

[judith rusia]

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Prevention and Treatment

Throughout the school system today there are at any time upwards of
thirty million students enrolled. The schools, health insurance
providers, and parents are very aware of this fact. When you initiate
sports programs into these schools with this many students you are
aware that accidents will happen.

Athletic trainers, physical therapists, and pediatricians are very
perceptive to this fact and understand the dilemma it presents. In any
given year, there are over one third of these innocent, young students
who require medical assistance and this is where the health insurance
providers begin to listen.

The health insurance industry, with the provision of monetary coverage
has also discussed this with the many athletic trainers, schools,
physical therapists, and others to try to put together a regiment of
formative ideas to help the health insurance industry and the medical
industry prevent many of the accidents that occur with the children.

Far too many community hospitals are being filled with children
because of sports related injuries, when a little common sense and
prevention plans would have alleviated much of this from happening.
New and innovative rehabilitating techniques and surgical advances are
currently available to help young athletes heal faster than ever
before.

The fear for these young children by the medical community and the
health insurance industry is lifelong sustaining injuries that begin
at such a young and tender age. New guidelines for preventive measures
are in order before more children must be exposed to so much
unnecessary pain and the possibility of surgery when it could have
been avoided.

Pediatric sports health care medicine has evolved tremendously over
the years, but more needs to be accomplished to help some young
students who are still physically growing. The prevention mechanisms
and the innovative treatments will go a long way in preventing many of
the injuries all these children are now experiencing. A few of the
items to research besides better equipment is:

1. Adolescent athletic bone health care issues

2. Scoliosis prevention in young athletes

3. The far too many elbow reconstruction and knee reconstruction

4. Proper nutrition and vitamins for all young athletes

5. Infectious diseases spreading through young athletic communities

Even the health insurance industry understand how certain physical
injuries sustained in a sports related activity can become a long-term
deformity causing the student a deformity for the remainder of his or
her life. This is not what anyone wants, but it begins by easing back
on a few of the sports related activities, which are supposed to be
fun.

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