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Sports are a great way for children to get the proper exercise they need as well as to socialize with their peers. However, sports can often lead to injuries. Each year, more than 3.5 million injuries occur in youth sports in the United States. Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40 percent of all sports-related injuries treated in emergency rooms. The severity and rate of sports-related injury increase with a child's age.
Visit the following pages to find more information and resources to keep your child safe while playing sports!
Join Vanderbilt Sports Medicine and Children's Hospital for a discussion about sports injury and tips to keep young athletes active, healthy and injury free. For more information about our community education programs related to sports safety, please visit the Safe Kids Youth Sports Safety Task Force.
Our Vanderbilt experts have experience in the prevention and treatment of a wide-range of sports injuries. See them in action working with the Vanderbilt Commodores and Belmont Bruins athletic programs, the Nashville Predators hockey team and Nashville Sounds minor league baseball team, and a number of public and private school athletic programs.
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