Four ways to reduce injury while weight training
The Indianapolis Star
As weight training has grown in popularity over the past decade, so has the number of injuries. From 1990 to 2007, more than 970,000 people visited emergency rooms with such injuries. While males and youths, ages 13 to 24, accounted for the largest proportion of the injuries, girls and young women had the greatest increase in the number of injuries. That fact doesn't surprise Dawn Comstock, an associate professor in the Ohio State University College of Medicine and the author of a recent study on weight-training-related injuries. Young women today are more likely to participate in high school and collegiate sports, and weightlifting is often part of the training.READ MORE
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Dominic Latella
