{"id":64517,"date":"2012-08-22T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=64517"},"modified":"2012-08-22T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:22:22","slug":"fall-sports-injury-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/08\/fall-sports-injury-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Sports Injury Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:18px\">[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qBPYFn_mmSM&amp;list=UU3S3UsD0bjJH4X3cMHJHooQ&amp;index=1&amp;feature=plcp&#8217;]<\/div>\n<p>The return of fall sports and youth athletes back on the field means millions of youngsters will experience an injury even before their sports season is officially over. Youth sports account for almost four million emergency room visits each year. The range of injuries can be anything from ACL tears for soccer players to concussions for football players \u2013 even as young as 12.<\/p>\n<p>Orthopaedic surgeon at the UConn Health Center\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nemsi.uchc.edu\/index.html\">New England Musculoskeletal Institute<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nemsi.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/deberardino.html\">Dr. Thomas DeBerardino<\/a>, offers tips on how you can reduce the risk of injury during an interview on NBC Connecticut.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall sports have been classified as some of the most dangerous \u2013 learn how to reduce your risk of injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":64518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-64517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 23:18:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64522,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64517\/revisions\/64522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/64518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64517"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=64517"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=64517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}