Preventing Sports Injury Research Paper

Most children at ages 5 to 14 are mainly being seen by doctors for sport injuries. These children are doing what they love even if it means getting injured from the sport. To prevent these injuries parents could could attend games and practices, watch the coaches and encourage their to prevent an injury, children should communicate with their parents and coaches, and tell them what has happened, also be ready for the sport that is about to be played. First, parents should attend practices and games, watch the coaches and encourage their children to help prevent any sport injuries. Parents should do this so they know how hard their children are working and how bad the injury could be. Watching the coaches could help prevent an injury from occurring, by being there and knowing what the coaches are doing and how they are helping other athletes. Attending practices and games helps by knowing what the athletes are doing, how hard they are being pushed, and what the injury could cause. Also, athletes need encouragement and by parents showing up to support their children not only makes them work harder, but also allows the children to push to their own limit so they do not get injured. …show more content…
Communicating with parents and coaches, means that the athletes have learned to trust and are willing to say something if they are injured. Athletes that have communicated to coaches and parents have not had a very serious injury, but others that kept it a secret so no one would be mad at them for being injured have suffered far worse. Children do not communicate injuries because they think it’s no big deal and that they do not want to be yelled at for not being able to play. If athletes do not say something about an injury that has happened could cause very bad damage to the