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AAP Grand Rounds 11:10 (2004)
© 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics

SPORTS MEDICINE

Strength Training for Children and Adolescents

Source: Benjamin HJ, Glow KM. Strength training for children and adolescents: what can physicians recommend? Phys Sports Med. 2003;31:19–28.

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Children and their parents often have questions about strength training programs, both for improving performance in competitive sports as well as for weight loss and overall fitness. Well-informed physicians can provide accurate information for sport-specific training and clarify myths and misconceptions. Strength training involves those resistance methods that increase strength by free weights, machine, and other devices providing resistance.

This review from authors at the University of Chicago, and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, Ill., addresses past confusion . . . [Full Text of this Article]

E. F. Luckstead, MD, FAAP
Sports Medicine, Texas Tech School of Medicine, Amarillo, TX

 





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