Children who play sports are being treated like professional athletes, and even professional athletes are suffering greater injuries than ever before.
Now that youth sports are being maxed out and competitions are offered as year-round money-makers for athletic organizations, the frequency of devastating injuries among children has increased, and top doctors are noticing.
‘When you’re physically putting 10,000 hours of demand on an adolescent body, that doesn’t work.’
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Dr. Karim Meijer, medical director and head team physician for the NFL’s Denver Broncos, says not only are pro athletes in the middle of an “injury epidemic,” but children who yearn to become professional ball players are being driven by the “youth sports industrial complex.”
From inside his own clinic, Dr. Meijer told Blaze News about a new phenomenon: gruesome injuries
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