AOSSM Early Sport Specialization Consensus Statement

Affiliations

• ¹ Chief Medical Officer, The Steadman Philippon Research Institute, Vail, Colorado, USA.
• ² Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• ³ Professor and Director, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University Centre of Aging Research and Education, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁴ Medical Director, Sports Medicine Program, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.; Director, Division of Sports Medicine and Adolescent Medicine, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
• ⁵ Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.; Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service; Co-medical Director, Leon Root Motion Analysis Laboratory, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA.
• ⁶ Professor and Director, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁷ Medical & Scientific Department, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland.; Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
• ⁸ Associate Professor-in-Residence and Fellowship Director, Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
• ⁹ Professor and Director, Institute for the Study of Youth Sports, College of Education/Department of Kinesiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
• ¹⁰ NCAA Chief Medical Officer and Clinical Professor of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.; New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
• ¹¹ Consultant, Orthopaedic Surgery; Director, Biomechanics, Sports Medicine Research; Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
• ¹² Associate Professor, Orthopedics and Family Medicine; Director, Tennis Medicine; Associate Director, Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, Emory Sports Medicine Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• ¹³ Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Associate Director, Division of Sports Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ¹⁴ Director, Research and The Human Performance Laboratory, Division of Sports Medicine I, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.; Department of Pediatrics and Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.; The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Orthopaedics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹⁵ Elite Sports Medicine, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.; Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.; Team Physician, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
• ¹⁶ Managing Partner, Steadman Clinic, Vail, Colorado, USA.; Co-chairman, Steadman Philippon Research Institute, Vail, Colorado, USA.; Fellowship co-Director, Steadman Philippon Research Institute, Sports Medicine Program, Vail, Colorado, USA.; Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹⁷ Chief of Sports Medicine and Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Head Team Physician and Medical Director, New England Patriots, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.; Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.