To All -
Attached is a brief bibliography on the subject, including citations
from the key medical and sportsmedical organizations position statements.
Enjoy....
Sandy
William S. Quillen,PhD,PT,SCS
Associate Professor & Director
Physical Therapy Program
Indiana University School of Medicine
Coleman Hall 120
1140 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5119
317-278-1851
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:49 AM
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Subject: Sports Injuries and Young Persons
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<< HOWEVER children are not the same as little adults so serious resistance
training and advanced power work (plyometrics) is absolutely contraindicated
- unfused epiphyseal growth plates etc. There are plenty of other
considerations most in the book. >>
*** This exaggeration continues to be proliferated despite the fact that the
forces measured biomechanically during many casual and sporting activities
such as running, jumping, landing, kicking and throwing far exceed those
generated during any controlled resistance training exercises. For example,
running, jumping and kicking easily result in reaction forces of more than
6
times bodyweight being exerted on many joints of the body. There is no
child or even adult who is capable of squatting, bench pressing or in any
other way moving any weight which exerts forces of that magnitude.
If weight training is to be regarded as a serious risk factor in epiphyseal
integrity, then we also should decree running, jumping, hitting, kicking and
so forth as being equally contraindicated. Why have the extremely large
forces generated by normal ballistic and impulsive activities of childrens'
play never been frowned upon by those who proclaim that the smaller forces
involved in weight training are dangerous for children?
Interestingly, other research shows that the bone density increases
significantly in children and adults who compete in Olympic weightlifting.
It is time that this belief in weight-induced epiphyseal damage be
substantiated more by adequate scientific and clinical research and less by
hypothesis and supposition.
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/
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