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Dr. Alexis C. Colvin: "Youth Sports Obsession"

  • WNYW TV
  • (January 14, 2014)

The new show Friday Night Tykes takes a look at an ultra-intense football league for eight- and nine-year olds. But is the intensity of this violent contact sport too much? "There are going to be traumatic injuries happening to these kids, injuries that we see in professional players," said Alexis Colvin, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at The Mount Sinai Hospital. "A lot of the injuries we're seeing today we used to only see in older athletes. Now we're seeing them in junior players." Learn more