The most important thing to remember is that kids are not little adults,” said Dr. Jason Nielson, Adolescent Sports Medicine and Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon for Children’s Bone and Spine Surgery and Sunrise Children’s Hospital. “They don’t get the same injuries, and we can’t train them in the same ways.”
While summer sets the landscape for limitless activities, it also comes with a set of risk factors, especially for the season’s most gleeful participants — children ...