Evaluating a Commonly Used Tool for Measuring Sport Specialization in Young Athletes.

CONCLUSIONS: The commonly used specialization survey misclassified a substantial number of highly specialized athletes as moderately specialized. Researchers should consider adding a fourth survey question, "Have you only ever played 1 sport?" to identify and better study this unique subset of misclassified athletes. PMID: 31633410 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Athletic Training - Category: Sports Medicine Tags: J Athl Train Source Type: research