Summary Of F. Launary's Sports-Related Injury

In F. Launay article “Sports-Related Overuse Injuries In Children”, He explains how sports are becoming more intense for younger sports players. Then he explains how children are developing disease in their bones because of the sports they play. F.Launay is trying to clarify to coaches and parents that they should be more considerate on how intense the sport and minimize the time they play in that sport. In the introduction, F.Launary questioned himself the similarities of sport and physical activities. He said “ Although it is true that sports activity is a physical activity, it is questionable whether physical activity is really a sport”. Physical activity is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness. F.Launary speaks about how much hours athletic children put in a sport because he believes that the adolescent children are overextending themselves physically. He thinks that's the reason why young children causing themselves to have injuries in their musculoskeletal system. Furthermore, F.Launary notice that there was a decrease in the daily activities because the children were replacing with video games. Since the children are replacing their daily activities with playing video games it can cause them to have overexertion injuries.
In the pathophysiology there is a epiphyseal cartilage that is a mosaic of interacting growth plates. It is be located in the epiphysis, apophysis, physis. F. Laundry explains how naming all of the growths can be confusing because there are different types of growths that grow in the bone when it is injured. In addition, he talks about the initial growth. They are epiphyseal, apophyseal and physeal osteochondrosis. Physeal Osteochondrosis is located in the radius growth plate. Therefore, people who does gymnasts they develop to have Panner’s