This episode of Pediacast is brought to you by sports medicine and pediatric emergency again to PDACast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 561.

We're calling this one pediatric sports injuries.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So injuries, as you know, are extremely common in children and teenagers, and sports participation is a leading cause of these injuries. Not only do injuries hurt, they also

impact the student's ability to continue playing and performing.

And that there is some good news in all of this, though, and that is that many sports

injuries are preventable. And by way of appropriate conditioning, strength training, athletic

technique, and rule following, you know, these injuries can be prevented. At other times, however, injuries are not easily prevented.

They just go along with the territory of some contact sports.

Whether preventable or not, the early diagnosis, management, and rehabilitation of these

injuries is important.

So we can get these athletes back on the playing field.

So that is our topic today, pediatric sports injuries and their prevention, diagnosis, and management, really with a lens on where do you go when your child is hurt with a sports injury?

So do you go to an urgent care, to an emergency department, to a sports

medicine clinic, to your primary care office? Where? Where do you go? And what can you expect?

And so that's really going to be our focus today as we consider pediatric sports injuries.

In our usual PDACAST fashion, we have a couple of terrific guests joining us this week.

Maggie Ruhl is an athletic trainer at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

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