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By NASPEM member, Dr. David Dunstan   Since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organisation on March 11, 2020, preventive measures such as home confinement and social distancing have become the new ‘norm’ around that world. Despite the effectiveness of such measures for virus control, legitimate concerns have been raised about […]

By NASPEM member, Dr. Shlomit Radom-Aizik   Emerging epidemiological reports on the coronavirus (COVID-19) in children show that they are less likely than adults to be infected and have severe illness. Why do young children seem to be less affected by COVID-19? While there is currently no scientific-based data to answer this crucial question, researchers

By NASPEM member, Dr. Webb Smith   At its very core pediatric exercise science much like general pediatric medicine is focused on assessing and promoting child health and wellness. The field of pediatric exercise science has grown tremendously over the last thirty years with more research available now than ever. A few things have become

By NASPEM member, Dr Adam Baxter-Jones   Of course not. However, a lot of parent, coaches and some professionals working with children think they are. In sports, size matters throughout childhood, as physical size often translates into physical superiority and athletic dominance, suggesting that greater size can trump or neutralize greater athletic skill. If, as

By NASPEM Member, Dr. Karin Pfeiffer   The answer seems obvious to those in the field – because children are NOT miniature adults! Those wise words were imparted to us by our esteemed and revered predecessors, Per Olof Astrand, Oded Bar-Or, Bob Malina, Tom Rowland, Neil Armstrong, and others. In fact, please refer to another