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Doctors See a Big Rise in
Injuries for Young Athletes:

In interviews with more than two dozen sports-medicine doctors and researchers, one factor was repeatedly cited as the prime cause for the outbreak in overuse injuries among young athletes: specialization in one sport at an early age and the year-round, almost manic, training for it that often follows.

'It's not enough that they play on a school team, two travel teams and go to four camps for their sport in the summer,' said Dr. Eric Small, who has a family sports-medicine practice in Westchester County. 'They have private instructors for that one sport that they see twice a week. Then their parents get them out to practice in the backyard at night.'