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Logan Pendley
DeBock
Block 2
February 6, 2015
Question: Why is the number of injuries in child sports increasing?
Working Thesis: Student athletes get hurt more in sports because they are unaware of prevention
techniques when playing sports.
Refined Thesis: The number of pediatric injuries in youth sports is increasing because the
athletes are unaware of the prevention techniques and there is more intense training and
competition than in the past.
Annotated Bibliography
Bankhead, Charles. "AAP: Big Jump in Knee Injuries in Kids." AAP: Big Jump in Knee Injuries
in Kids. MedPage Today, 16 Oct. 2011. Web. 12 Feb. 2015.
This article was specific to pediatric knee injuries. The analysts were assuming that the
number of ACL tears, meniscal tears, and tibial spine fractures were increasing. So, they did
some research on these 3 injuries on children under 18 at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
between 1999 and 2010. What they found was shocking. They were extremely right in their
assumption. They concluded that the cause was more intense competition and training. This
article will support the opinion that pediatric injuries are increasing because of intense
competition and training.

Schwebel, David C., and Brezausek, Carl M. "Child Development and Pediatric Sport and
Recreational Injuries by Age." National Athletic Trainers' Association, Inc., 1 Jan.2014
Web. 12 Feb. 2015.
The number of pediatric sports injuries is rapidly increasing. The academic journal gives
many statistics about increasing emergency room visits of children 1-18. It talks about how
injuries can differ between age and sex. It also talks about how different types of injuries happen
within what age group and the different types of sports. The article states the top five sports with
the most injuries. It concludes with how different factors can lead to pediatric injuries, including
sex, sport, body type, and many others. It also explains how perfectionists can use this

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information. This article will support the opinion that children are unaware of the prevention that
could potentially lower the rate of pediatric sport injuries.
Vanderlei, Franciele. Characteristics and Contributing Factors Related to Sports Injuries in
Young Volleyball Players 6.1 (2013): 1-16. Print.
This article specifically talks about injuries related to volleyball. It focuses mainly on the
contributing factors leading to, mainly, overuse injuries. The authors did research on 522
volleyball individual athlete, mechanism of injury, and training schedules. The authors found that
age, weight, height. BMI, and training routines were the main contributing factors. The authors
also found that most injuries were contracted during training. They also provided five pictures
and charts supporting the data. This article will support the fact that overuse injuries occur
because of intense training.