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Redefining Injury Severity in Youth Sports: Functional Inability to Walk as a Primary Severity Phenotype (n = 4,829)

2026-02-05 sports medicine Title + abstract only
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ObjectivesDeterminants of functional injury severity in young athletes remain incompletely understood. Conventional assumptions emphasize contact sport participation and skeletal immaturity as major drivers of severe injury; however, severity definitions based on surgery or time loss are strongly influenced by health-care systems and competition contexts. We investigated factors associated with early functional severity after lower-extremity sports injury using a large clinical cohort. MethodsT...

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