Redefining Injury Severity in Youth Sports: Functional Inability to Walk as a Primary Severity Phenotype (n = 4,829)

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<h4>Objectives</h4> Determinants of functional injury severity in young athletes remain incompletely understood. Conventional assumptions emphasize contact sport participation and skeletal immaturity as major drivers of severe injury; however, severity definitions based on surgery or time loss are strongly influenced by health-care systems and competition contexts. We investigated factors associated with early fu...

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• Adolescent
• Age Factors
• Biomechanical Phenomena
• Cartilage, Articular
• Child
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms
• Risk Factors

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635248a9-3eb9-5a1d-b5f9-fa248fcc8157

DOI

10.64898/2026.02.03.26345517