[Playing hurt: dealing with joint pain in adolescent elite athletes].

CONCLUSIONS: The fact that more than four out of ten adolescent elite athletes are willing to compete despite joint pain is alarming because joint pain can have severe long-term health consequences. It is important that trainers, managers and physicians offer assistance in the treatment of joint pain and support them as much as possible in therapy and pain management. The overarching aim should be to prevent irreversible damage as well as a premature end of the sports career. PMID: 29294211 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Schmerz - January 2, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Diehl K, Mayer J, Thiel A, Zipfel S, Schneider S Tags: Schmerz Source Type: research