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Flat White

Choosing your sport

11 February 2023

5:00 AM

11 February 2023

5:00 AM

What sport would you recommend your child play?

If it’s football, most footballers have to retire by age 30, some having acquired injuries for life. If it’s competitive tennis, most players over-develop one side of their bodies and suffer shoulder, knee, ankle, wrist, and of course tennis elbow injuries. If you like soccer, regularly heading soccer balls for decades can leave you with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE); and let’s not talk netball and knees and ankles, or rugby which is associated with John Hopoate and neck braces.

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