Sleep key to keeping teenage athletes injury-free

Adolescent athletes who slept eight or more hours each night were more than two-thirds less likely to be injured than athletes who regularly slept less, according to a new study. 

“While other studies have shown that lack of sleep can affect cognitive skills and fine motor skills, nobody has really looked at this subject in terms of the adolescent athletic population,” said study author Matthew Milewski, MD.

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