Committee on Adolescence and Sports Medicine

The Committee on Adolescence monitors available science and data regarding the broad range of adolescent health and sports medicine issues, and formulates related recommendations for TPS Board consideration. Recent Committee on Adolescence work has included promoting healthy adolescent life choices, enhancing health professional education about adolescent medicine and sports medicine, and addressing adolescent risk behaviors, sexuality and sexual activity, pregnancy, substance abuse, sport safety and mental health screening.

SUGGESTED LINKS
Adolescent Medicine
Pediatric Sports Medicine
Condition-specific Patient & Family Education Materials
Parent Resources
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender Adolescents

Adolescent Medicine Links:

American Academy of Pediatrics Adolescent Health Website

Society for Adolescent Medicine Website
• Teen, Family and Healthcare Professional Resources
• Free online CME

Adolescent Health Curriculum by Larry Neinstein, M.D.

CDC Adolescent Health Page

Tweens and Teens Calcium Needs

Teen Growth
• Physician and teen advisory board
• Info on sex, body, emotions, health, friends, sports, drugs/alcohol, school and family
• Links for crisis intervention

Center for Young Women's Health, Children's Hospital Boston
• Teen girls’ health website featuring health guides, quizzes, chats and more

Girls Health (U.S. DHHS Office on Women’s Health)

I Wanna Know, For Teens (American Social Health Association)
• Info on sexual readiness, STDs, puberty, safe sex, and abstinence
• Ask the Expert and FAQs

Coalition for Positive Sexuality
• Discussion of sexuality in teen language for straight, gay and lesbian teens

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
• Info on sexuality, orientation, sexual readiness, safe sex, sexual abuse and pregnancy
• Links to various hotlines

KidsHealth (Nemours Foundation)
• Info on body, mind, food, fitness, sexuality, school/jobs, drugs/alcohol, and diseases
• Ask the expert section
• Also in Spanish

Go Ask Alice
• Answers to common questions teens may have

Planned Parenthood Teen Talk
• Info for teens on food, sex, STDs, body, dating, birth control, pregnancy and LGBT
• Ask the expert archives
• Includes information on movies, sports and music, and has a “Teenzine”
• Separate chat rooms for girls and guys where topics particular to sex are discussed

Sex, Etc. (Network for Family Life Education)
• Info on health, pregnancy/parenting, abuse, abstinence, contraceptives, and gay teens
• Teen board that develops stories for the site

TeenHealthFX
• Covers a wide array of topics pertinent to adolescents
• Teen and physician advisory

Pediatric Sports Medicine Links:

American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness

What is a Pediatric Sports Medicine Specialist?

UIL Athletic  Forms
• UIL Pre-participation Sports Physical Examination Form in English
  • UIL Pre-participation Sports Physical Examination Form in Spanish

Sports Injuries on Medline Plus (from the National Institutes of Health)

Preventing Pediatric Sports Injuries (Children's Hospital of Atlanta)

Condition Specific Patient & Family Education Materials:

Little League Elbow; Low Back Pain; Osgood-Schlatter Disease; Sever's Disease (Heel Pain); Sinding-Larsen and Johansson Disease (Jumper's Knee)

Substance Use/SBIRT

Above the Influence
• Office of National Drug Control Policy’s AntiDrug Media Campaign
• Ask the Expert

NIDA – Preventing Drug Abuse Among Children and Adolescents