Preventing youth injury with Vicon - Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Preventing youth injury with Vicon - Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
2 PagesPreventing youth injury with Vicon Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford More than 46.5 million children participate in sports each year in the United States alone, and school and recreational sports club teams are becoming more popular. Image courtesy of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Biomechanics and Sport Case Study Because of this, we’re seeing today’s athletes getting younger. But this is also leading to more injuries in children. The Motion and Sports Performance Lab opened in August 2016 and focuses on three distinct areas: injury prevention, objective return to sports, and sports performance and enhancement. “There are high-skilled orthopedic surgeons at Stanford, but my job is to keep all these kids away from them as much as I possibly can,” says Michael Orend
