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• Protect Your Child From Serious Sports Injuries
  
• Additional Articles
• Featured Physicians
• Recommended Web Sites

Protect Your Child From Serious Sports Injuries

By Sally S. Harris, M.D., MPH

Over the past several decades, an increasing number of children and adolescents have become involved in individual and organized team sports. While moderate physical activity is healthy for a child’s mind and body, excessive or inappropriate levels of activity can result in serious injuries, some with lasting effects. Read more...


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Additional Articles

• Infants and Diaper Rash
  
  
• Children and Eye Injuries
  
  
• Preteens and Growing Pains
  
  
• Teens and Missed Periods
  
  
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  Featured Physicians

  
  Jolene Duong, M.D., joined the Department of Family Practice at the Redwood Shores Health Center last August. She received her M.D. degree in 2001 from the University of California, Irvine, after graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her residency with the Sutter Health Family Practice Residency Program (an affiliate of the University of California, Davis) and is board certified in family practice. She is fluent in Cantonese.
  
  Tina Wu Leung, M.D., joined the Department of Family Practice at the Los Altos Center last August. She received her M.D. degree in 1998 from the University of Kansas after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed an internship and residency at the UCLA Medical Center in family health and is board certified in family practice. She speaks medical Spanish and limited Cantonese.
  
  
  
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  Recommended Web Sites

  
  

  • Youth Sports Safety Month: April
    National Youth Sports Safety Foundation
    
    
  • National Infant Immunization Week:
    April 24 - 30
    Interactive Childhood Immunization Schedule
    CDC National Immunization Program
    
    
  • March of Dimes WalkAmerica: April/May www.walkamerica.org
    
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