Dr. Neeru Jayanthi (Director of the Tennis Medicine program at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and member of the ITPA Cerification Commission) provides a great review of some of his research analyzing injury risk in junior tennis players. He discusses information that he and his research team found from a series of studies looking at US Junior tennis players who play competitive sectional and national tournaments. The data provides some unique insights. Some of the areas discussed in this 5 minute video are:
- at what number of matches in a single tournament does the medical withdrawal rate substantially increase?
- does different ages of competition result in different injury rates?
- do males have more medical withdrawals in junior events than female players?
- at what number of hours of practice/competition per week does injury risk rise for the junior tennis player ?
- does some data exist that links the total number of matches per year with medical withdrawal rates?
- how many 10 year old players report specializing in only tennis compared to older players (i.e. 16 and 18 year olds)
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