Most youth sports injuries are decided by a calendar, not by a moment. By the time something hurts, the conditions were set months earlier — in a schedule nobody sat down and designed, that accumulated one reasonable-sounding commitment at a time. The club season. Then the school season. Then the tournament team, because everyone else is doing it. Then a skills camp over the break, because it seemed like a shame to lose momentum. Nobody made a bad decision. The year just quietly filled up. So here's an audit. Walk through your athlete's actual twelve months, and check it against what the research suggests.
Jul27th 2026
