Dr. Joshua John‑Ram Schacter discusses his approach to treating athletes, contrasting professional players—where rapid return to play may be reasonable given financial stakes—with his reduced focus on high‑school athletes due to concerns about single‑sport specialization. He cites studies indicating athletes who specialize in one sport year‑round (e.g., soccer) have higher injury risk than those who play multiple sports.
I love taking care of athletes. It's really a great part of orthopedics. When you're a professional football player and you're making millions of dollars a game, $10 million a game, then maybe it's reasonable for you to return to sport within as soon as you possibly can. It is your profession and you're a lot on that. Part of the reason why in this practice I don't focus as much. I used to do a lot of COVID a lot of high school football and I love taking care of athletes. It's really a a great part of orthopedic. But in this practice I don't focus so much on high school athletics just because I'm really starting to become opposed to some of those ideas. There's studies that show that if we have single sport athletes that like soccer players are a perfect example, they play soccer year round, they're much more likely to be injured than if they play multiple sports.
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