WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? Firstly, sports clubs, coaches and schools should be approached to ask what they are doing about implementing sports injury prevention programs for your children and grandchildren. Secondly, you can ask your local MP what the Federal and State Governments are doing about this epidemic. The Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) believes that his problem is so dire, that an effective and universal Federal Government level response to youth sports injury prevention is needed now in order to make sport safe for all participants, increase participation to prevent obesity and reduce the later burden of osteoarthritis. The AOA has proposed a National Youth Sports Injury Prevention Program implemented by the Australian Sports Commission. A federally-funded National Youth Sports Injury Prevention Program would have a very modest cost compared to the reduction in direct and indirect medical costs of highly these preventable injuries. Associate Professor Christopher Vertullo is a Specialist Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon and Director of the Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Centre, Gold Coast, an Adjunct at Griffith and Bond Universities, Chair of the AOA Youth Sports Injury Prevention Working Group, Founder of Knee Research Australia and Secretary of the Australian Knee Society. For more information visit www.safesport.org.au 19,741 HOSPITALISATIONS LAST YEAR HALF WERE THE RESULT OF TEAM BALL SPORTS 50 Pindara Magazine 2016
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