Rush’s parody Keep Our Own Kids Safe (KOOK) routine comes to mind.
Bump!
I still have trouble with them not counting practice pitches between innings as part of the pitch count.
It's a repetitive motion, regardless of effort.
I was diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter disease at 12 or 13. At 17, woke up one day after a school dance, and couldn’t bend the knee.
A bone chip got pulled out into the joint for about a week.
Had to have it surgically removed. The roughly 4-6 week recovery was worse than the few days in the hospital.
I’ve heard that youth sports has gotten more intense, in that, there is pressure at younger ages to specialize in a particular sport, or playing a particular position.
It sounds like some of your players were just playing too much, if they were on your team, plus other teams as well.
I used to play basketball nearly everyday for years on concrete playgrounds. I do have backpain but probably because I still played into my late 30’s. It all seems overblown to me.
fear of the sun / spending to much time inside is causing this and many other kids issues.
Kids bones are not as strong as they used to be because they are not getting enough sun to produce the Vitamin D needed to build strong bones.
Next time you see a large group of kids lined up with shorts or short skirts on..... look at their legs... nearly 70+ of them will have at least slightly knocked knees.
THAT was not the case when I was a kid!
And kids todays break there bones constantly. Nearly every kid in my kids school has broken at least one bone.
Heck I could count on one hand the total number of kids I knew growing up that every broke a bone, and I went to a school with 1,000’s of kids.
Checked it out i=on the Mayo Clinic website.It’s a real disease that’s capable of causing real pain in kids who are active in certain sports...although they say it rarely becomes something that’s long lasting.
Precisely the reason I wouldn’t let my daughter play any club sport except in summer
My brother told of coaching a Little League kid to pitch, only to see him in ’teen years on a team that had a star pitcher who was always given the ball.His coach didn’t even know Butch could pitch, he was their first baseman. Coach ran into the buzz saw of allowable use of his star at one point - and on game day he had to ask for a volunteer to pitch. Butch volunteered, and pitched a shutout. And was permanently relegated back to first base . . .
I was offered rides to school on the 'tart cart' but refused and instead limped to school and back each day. My stay at home Mom never thought about driving me to school that was't done then.
I know a guy whose son played multiple high school sports. He was constantly breaking bones, even his pelvis...twice.
I warned my friend that his son never had time to heal between injuries and sports.
It was insane. I’ll bet by the time this kid hits 30, he’ll be almost invalid.
Happened to my brother when he was 14. No more sports.