Participation in sports is healthy physically and socially among children and adolescents, medical research says. But getting into an athletic quest mainly for developing young bodies also causes risks, according to the rheumatologist.org website.
The study was conducted by Aurelia Nattiv, a professor in the University of California Los Angeles Department of Family Medicine, and division of sports medicine in the Department of Orthopedics. Her research area of concentration more on the future health and quality of life of young women athletes.
During the October 2008 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting entitled “Treating the Young Athlete,” Nattiv was one of the lecturers. Dr. Nattiv heads the American College of Sports Medicine, which supports the position stand on the Female Athlete Triad.
According to the rheumatologist.org website, Dr. Nattiv delineated the present science behind the revision position, which also tackles on common musculoskeletal injuries perceived among female sports persons. In a separate report from Reuters,
"a new report could encourage more hip replacement lawsuits".
The rheumatologist.org website mentioned that the female athlete triad is currently defined as energy availability, menstrual function, and bone strength, These three interrelated items exist on continuums from health to disease.
Dr. Nattiv added that “energy availability” has replaced the term “eating disorder,” and is defined as the amount of dietary energy remaining for all other physiological functions after energy has been expended in exercise.
According to Dr. Nattiv that a large group of female athletes do not have eating disorder and hence do not fall within the DSM-IV eating disorder diagnoses. But these players still need tutelage about having the sufficient energy needs. Destructive energy readiness is now painstaking as key to triggering pathologic processes. For example, recent research shows that reduced energy availability is a co-risk factor for lowered bone density, along with menstrual dysfunction.
Dr. Nattiv said that building bone density is crucial and important for young boys and girls in-between ages 10 and 14. Up to 90 percent of peak bone mass is get hold of at around age 18. She reminded her audience during her presentation that it is hard to regain bone mass and showed slides of severe osteoporosis in women.
She urged session participants to be proactive and screen all girls and women in sports and systematic exercise programs for the triad disorders. This screening should include a menstrual history and nutritional habits, among other elements. Dr. Nattiv took the cudgels for a nutrition-based approach to boost body weight while ensuring satisfactory vitamin C and D intake.
If these will be carefully examined, it will decrease the number of women having health issues concerning cartilages and bones, which may cause hip pains which led people to have hip implants. Negative feedback had been inevitable and affected men and women had to file a
DePuy Pinnacle Lawsuit.
URL REFERENCE
http://www.everydayhealth.com/arthritis/arthritis-juvenile-types.aspx
http://www.the-rheumatologist.org/details/article/873473/A_Sporting_Chance.html
