A Dangerous Game: The Truth About Youth Sports | Nikhil Verma | TEDxChicago
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2019
- Dr. Nikhil Verma, Director of Sports Medicine, Midwest Orthopedics at Rush, serves as Team Physician for the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls. Dr. Verma runs a busy clinical practice in Chicago and recently received funding for his sports medicine research from Major League Baseball. His talk examines how intensified youth sports have caused unprecedented injuries in child athletes.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I coach travel soccer, and from my experience, most of the problems in youth sports come from the parents. The game day experience is a sad spectacle…rows of overweight moms and dads sitting on chairs and screaming nonsense at their kids, completely oblivious to any sense of decorum. The kids are stressed and often miserable if we lose.
Recently, I’ve started having an entire practice session during the week consisting of nothing but small sided games…no drills, no work on set pieces…with the players encouraged to express themselves and be creative with the ball. It’s basically street soccer.
It’s now becoming the highlight of the week…because it’s the most fun!
And here I am getting back pain because of sitting on PC for long.
Parents with too big ego's, trying to shape a child into what the parent once desired to be.
Bingo
And go broke monetarily and psychologically doing it.
I was a multi sport player and all in with every sport I played. When I was 39 hip pain set in and I suffered until I was 49 until I had my first hip replacement....long story short I am 52 now with 2 hip replacements and 1 knee replacement and currently waiting for my 2nd knee replacement....moderate to severe cervical and lumbar arthritis....I have 4 kids and have never let them play sports the way I did....my son plays soccer and my daughter is on her high school crew team and the other 2 kids were just never interested in sports which was fine by me....bottom line is when your body hurts stop and rest it for however long you need to....sports eventually end and you have to have your body for many years after.
If only more parents would listen to you on this! As a coach I had to force kids to stop and rest for a few days, even when parents were swearing up and down their kid was fine, when their kid was clearly not fine. I'd love to hear more about your story.
The sad truth is that most children are forced into sports .
Informative video as always
@Manimoy Chakraborty America
I wish people didn't generalize their opinions with 'most' when they don't know. All you know is what you've seen. Leave it at that.
@Mike Young "most" is accurate, because it's almost always the same story. Parent was a failure who didn't get to chase their dream, so they force the dream onto their kids.
Ground zero That’s obvious to everyone except the parents.
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This is one of the most important talks that I have heard in a long time for school sport. A lot of it I believed but I did not have a medical perspective. Now I know what to organize for our seminars that we have for school coaches.
Sport is made 4 fun n not 4 pain so we must be careful when playing it.
The problem nowadays is that if you ask your kid what they want to do they’re most likely mostly gonna wanna eat snacks all day and play video games. Kids are just lazy nowadays and need that push from responsible parents. Sports was the best thing I could have done growing up and I’m glad my parents pushed me to do them
Outstanding cadence and clarity in this presentation.
One of the main problems I see is having the students practice the same moves at least 6 days a week- working the same muscles. There's no rest time given for the muscles.
And the state of us social support /healthcare.
Awesome! I played Cricket and soccer more than 16 years, and after i did 9 brain surgeries, being blind and paralyzed etc. but i still believe i'm still alive because i played so hard in the field and in the life as well. :)
I can definitely confirm that theres a high risk of injuries in youth sports and I was one of the lucky ones. I had to quit because I got to a point where i couldnt do day to day tasks. And the worst part is coaches mock you for quitting
For quitting and staying out when injured. Happened to my son and my daughter. Both were mocked and shunned from the team when out with injuries. Terrible.
After this I don't wanna watch no more sports I'm done because I know that somebody else's child is watching it and hoping for dreams to be there too and with the depression that comes with losing the injuries the deaths the disabilities that comes later on in life because you play sports it's not worth it at all Kids want to play for fun the adults and society want us to play the win at any means possible
Great topic
My coworkers son had Tommy John surgery his first year pitching at Harvard, it was successful and he was drafted by the Twins. Unfortunately he relies on opiates just to start his day, he’s not even 30. He’s living his dream, but at what price?
How many Harvard freshman do you think have had tommy John surgery and also have been drafted by the twins?
You sorta just outed your coworkers son.
I get an odd feeling reading the comments since I wanted to take part in sports but couldn't due to growing up in rural kansas witih 2 parents who both worked 2 jobs. It just wasn't possible and if you don't get involved early on it just makes it that much harder later on to do so. Sure, many parents push their kids into sports as they do for many endeavors otherwise kids grow up without direction or motivation. I'm an example of this because everything was always left up to me what to do with no guidance either for or against. I've drifted through life ever since. so sure, parents can go too far but they can also do too little and i'm guessing that many parents do what's best for their kids. In society we tend to focus on the worst cases or the best cases while forgetting that the large majority aren't heard from nor does anyone care to know how their kids turned out. We just like the extremes as they make for good drama and lots of head shaking.
I've never played sports as a kid. Never wanted to.
When my daughter was 5 we put her in softball to be able to play with more friends.
My daughter is now 13 and still plays. And is really good. She plays travel and club softball. She loves it, but yes it's expensive.
Great thanks, great talk. Yes, a sport is often used as a ladder.
Muhteşem teşekkürler harika bir konuşma. Evet genel de spor bir amaç, bir merdiven olarak kullanılıyor.👏👏🇹🇷🇹🇷
Malakachena teh prinsibele!
Just the pressure of life in the 21st century .
Yeah really no kidding just life alone
Indeed!
dangerous game was a really good perk. it improved explosive damage by 50%
But the exposure for proving that is the depth of children and long life injuries of children and I'm talking about anybody under 18 and all for what is for money and fame money and fame for the person and money money for the universities The sports leagues Parents pushed their children into the situation because all they see is my child and hes good he can run and can pass but he also can die I don't understand how apparent or anybody can sacrifice children for sports but they do pathetic
Nice
what kind of training load are we talking about , duration per training session and how many times a week aswell how many competitions
Y’all sports litterally in my experience made me look for approval it was the only way I was able to get attention and it was awful
Just want to say that it is man 🙏 Aman😢
This is The Thing though what hes saying is good but hes missing out something in order to get into a sports away hes working at they have to play when they're Young that's the Danger point if they Don't Play with a Young and get the training they'll NeVER make it to the NFL or High boxing or any other High sport so it still defeats the Purpose because if You Stop children from playing sports there is No More sports and I'm Alright with that because my child will still be Alive and Yours will be too
When I coached on a club team I would often tell parents to put their kids in other sports for that very reason.
U r just repeating what swimmers went through in the late 80s early 90s with stress injuries ie small fractures in shoulders and knees they worked it out. They cut training in half and competitions
"Is it worth it...?" Nope.the numbers tell us that u should reconsider pressuring ur children
In making it.2% of 2% will make it.
Is it worth the injuries the time money etc.....NOPE
Maybe it's about more than just making it pro
The problem is recovery time. Everyone needs recovery time. A lot of couches out there want their players to train everyday 5 days a week. That not the way to do it. You have to give the athletes recovery time. If you work 7 days a week anyone will start to breakdown. That’s when the parents come in and tell these couches to go kick rocks. Also, risks are part of life but it must be managed. Telling people that competing is a problem is a double edge sword.
Alt yazi ekleyin hic bisey anlamiyoruz 😒😒
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The food we eat has lost its sustainable nutritive values for the body (cyclist 1965!)
Let me tell you that has nothing to do with taking your child out to a field or participating in a game or accepting a cost scholarship so your child could try to get in school because school is so expensive which is a con game to trick you in to get your child and it risks Your child dying in a certain percentage cause you hope they make it through without any injuries nonsense it is what it is when you put your child in sport you sacrifice in your child ability to live a long life the percentage goes up we're supposed to make that percentage go down for our children to live a healthy life not raised that percentage to go up
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Si tan sólo fuera en español. 😢
O no te creo.....i know you speak fluid english
So it looks like many of the problems such as the softball player arises because they played the same sport a ton. Meaning they are always making the same motions over and over.
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EA2, anyone?
They need to sell sport with the big moto '' sport is health '' in order to fill it up all the gaps and maximize the money gains.
very nice my subscribe
Yes we are equally at fault parents are because I've made my ex-husband now but did not teach sports for kids because I knew that he was enabling the society of sports upon children which were hurting children so why would you want to hurt children he decided I was right
it's all about the money, such a terrible tunnel vision.
This guy is giving me Harvey Spector's vibe
Think about it if the kids are not playing sports if they're dozing up playing sports this is about money our kids have been sacrificed for money and fame for schools and universities it is not worth it when are we gonna wake up
I just want to say one more day what about these little kids going into boxing boxing in rural areas are starting to popup that is the most dangerous game in the world you study hitting the person's head I don't get that guy to help me on a kyour daddy hit me ahead and you don't think there's a problem ridiculous and it should be a crime
And The Thing is scholarships are being given by sports to encourage us to help us get our kids in the school because schools are so expensive but that's a con game in itself you're tricking me and my child with hopes and false dreams knowing that 1 day he can get hurt on that football field ridiculous
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youre not working on curing the cure BEFORE she got injured, you monster? internet police! internet police! :)
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