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Violence In High School Sports Essay

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Every athlete knows that playing sports comes with a price. A price of potentially destroying your body and leaving you with lifelong aches and pains from playing the sport you loved as an adolescent. This price is something many young people are willing to pay for the possibility of great reward. Violence in High School sports can cause injuries because there is a lack of certified trainers available, adolescents are undevelopment and their bodies are overused, and the violence can cause lifelong injuries.
High school athletes are more susceptible to injuries due to a lack of recognition by coaches, trainers. “In the United States only 55% of athletes at secondary public school have access to a full time trainer, while only 37% of those …show more content…

There is an estimated thirty million children competing in sports and most of their bodies aren't ready for it. “Factors that contribute to this difference in vulnerability include: children have a larger surface area to mass ratio, children have larger heads proportionately, children may be too small for protective equipment, growing cartilage may be more vulnerable to stresses and children may not have the complex motor skills needed for certain sports until after puberty (Adirim).” There are many athletic “diseases” that come from the overuse in young athletes such as severs (in the heal), Osgood-schlatter disease (in the knee), and little league elbow (in the elbow). All are very painful and the only thing that can be done to fix it is simply rest. Little league elbow is inflammation to the growth plate of a child's elbow due to repeated stress of throwing. Throwing a baseball is one of the most controversial and debated topics in sports. It is the most explosive movement in sports because your arm is accelerated and decelerated faster than any other movements, and pitchers do this one hundred times a game, thousands and thousands times a season. Many doctors think people shouldn't be allowed to pitch until they are 16, when their growth plate is fully fused together. Today in major league baseball there are more and more Tommy John

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