When temperatures drop in winter months, parents and coaches should be aware of how to keep growing athletes safe from cold-weather injuries.

Heat, dehydration, and improper stretching or warmups can increase a growing athlete’s chance of getting leg and muscle cramps.

Learn the symptoms of dehydration, heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke in teen and youth athletes. Our experts provide tips to avoid these heat-related illnesses.

Learn why your teen’s pediatrician should perform their annual pre-participation sports physical exam.

Parents and coaches should be mindful of how to help a growing athlete safely return to sports after the offseason.

Shin splints can be painful for growing athletes. Here are some ways to recognize risk factors for shin splints and tips for preventing them in kids and teens.

Young female athletes may have low energy availability, which can lead to amenorrhea or missed periods and low bone density. This is known as the female athlete triad.

Young female athletes are built differently, with their own unique needs. Our pediatric orthopedic expert discusses common injuries in girls’ sports.

Learn the differences between pediatricians, sports medicine primary care physicians and orthopedic surgeons, as well as the conditions in which a teen athlete should see a sports medicine primary care physician.

To reduce the risk of overuse injuries and avoid athlete burnout, experts recommend kids play more than one sport.