ReviewJournal of athletic training2019
The Public Health Consequences of Sport Specialization.
Review in Journal of athletic training, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Formed on Ice: A Qualitative Study of Motivation, Pressure, and Identity in Early Ice Hockey Specialization.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Ankle Bracing as a Public Health Game Changer: A Narrative Review on the Prevention of Ankle Injuries in Basketball Players.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Accessibility: An Area Deprivation Index (ADI) Analysis of National Basketball Association (NBA) Players' Profiles.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2024Review
- Pediatric Health Care Provider Awareness, Perceptions, and Utility of Sport Specialization Recommendations.Journal of athletic training · 2023Article
- Sport specialisation and performance-enhancing substance use by young athletes.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2023Article
- Youth Sports Specialization and Its Effect on Professional, Elite, and Olympic Athlete Performance, Career Longevity, and Injury Rates: A Systematic Review.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2022Review
- Concerns About the Evaluation of Diversity in "Current Perceptions of Diversity Among Head Team Physicians and Head Athletic Trainers": Response.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
- The Role of Athlete Competitiveness in High School Sport Specialization in the United States.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
- Current and Future Trends in Strength and Conditioning for Female Athletes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Authors' Response.Journal of athletic training · 2021Article
- Sports participation volume and psychosocial outcomes among healthy high school athletes.Journal of clinical and translational research · 2020Article
- Secondary School Athletic Trainers' Perceptions of How Youth Sport Specialization Impacts Workload.Sports healthArticle
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Abstract
Sport specialization was thought to affect a relatively small number of elite athletes, but it is now a common practice in youth sport culture. Recent research in the field of sport specialization has led to a better understanding of the influence this issue is having on youth (ie, younger than 19 years of age) today. This review focuses on sport specialization from a public health perspective to elucidate the effect that this practice is having within the United States. The specific goals of this review are to describe (1) the prevalence of sport specialization and the factors that may affect the decision to specialize, (2) the costs of youth sport-related injuries in the context of sport specialization, (3) the financial costs that sport specialization has for families, and (4) how sport specialization may be affecting physical literacy.
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