Enduring Material

There is no cancellation policy for on-demand activities.

• Define early sports specialization
• Discuss the position statements for early sports specialization
• Review training approaches for the specialized athlete

• The Children's Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
• Andrews Research & Education Foundation (BOC AP# P10197) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers. This program is eligible for a maximum of 1 Category A hours/CEUs. Athletic Trainers should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.
• The Children's Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 Hour(s) NCPD (ANCC Contact Hours). Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
• The Children's Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 Hour(s) Attendance w/ No Credit. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Sports medicine is an evolving discipline in which experience of a multigenerational factor can shed new information and knowledge on how to properly identify, manage and prevent common injury types seen in sports medicine today. This online educational enduring material is designed for physicians and clinical staff. Its purpose is to bridge the gap between the medical knowledge and current practice with evidence-based practice guidelines to achieve optimal patient outcomes through discussions and examinations of interesting, real world cases.

Learning outcome: As a result of this activity, the learner will identify at least one best practice recommendation for early sports specialization in pre-adolescent children that will enhance, validate, or cause a change in practice.

In compliance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence, all presenters, authors and planners must disclose to the participants of an educational activity any relevant financial relationships they may have with an ineligible company, (i.e., any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients) related to the content of this CME activity. The Course director, Troy Smurawa, MD, has no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company related to the content of this CME activity. The CME planners and staff have no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company related to the content of this CME activity. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Alvin Chi, MD has no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.

The speaker, Alvin Chi, MD has no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company related to the content of this CME activity.

This activity is not commercially supported.

• The Children’s Health is accredited by the Texas Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
• Children’s Health System of Texas is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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