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3rd Annual Pediatric Sports Medicine Conference

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This coming Saturday the Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Department at the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland will host the 3rd annual pediatric sports medicine conference in Walnut Creek, California. I will present information related to the evaluation and analysis of sports related injuries in youth competitive athletes.

Sandoval-Sweeney. It is not Futurology, it is Rationality!

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With some information from the training world it is possible to predict the future. And it is not because some unique cosmic force allows few of us to do so, it is because training is a methodical science. The rational organization of information allows to predict with some level of accuracy the possible outcome of training decisions, plans and implementations. To illustrate it here we have the cases of Mr. Sandoval and Mr. Sweeney that I analyzed few month ago, where I risked some predictions that finally became facts. Lets review them shortly and see where are those players today. Case 1: Mr. Sandoval After loosing a lot of weight rapidly before the 2011 season, I explained the risk that this type of practices imply for a competitive athlete. The main concern was the difficulty for the body to adjust to a so fast change of body composition and the associated weakness of most of the muscle skeletal system. Please review the previous article for more information http://danielkamene...