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612-873-8500 More than 30 million children participate in sports each year in the United States. Of those 30 million, approximately 3.5 million children under the age of 14 are treated for sports-related injuries in hospitals, doctors’ offices, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and hospital emergency rooms. Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40 percent of all sports-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. Safe Kids of Hennepin County’s goal is to reach coaches and parents through these clinics and equip them with the critical information and resources to keep kids out of the emergency room. Safe Kids of Hennepin County was selected as one of 20 coalitions across the country to receive funding for the Safe Sports clinics from Safe Kids USA, supported by founding sponsor Johnson & Johnson. This new initiative focuses on four components critical to keeping young athletes healthy and injury-free: preventing acute and overuse injuries, proper hydration before, during and after play, annual pre-season medical screenings for each athlete and finally, concussion awareness, prevention and screening methods. For more information on Safe Kids of Hennepin County’s sports safety clinics or sports injury prevention in general, please call Julie Philbrook Safe Kids julie.philbrook@hcmed.org or 612-873-8500 or visit www.safekids.org/sports. Helpful links: Heads Up: Concussions in Sports
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