The hip health of youth athletes as their skeletons grow and mature while the athlete copes with the physical and mental stressors of sport and life, has been receiving renewed attention.

Today's episode of JOSPT Insights is part 1 of a 2-part chat about training load and the youth athlete's hip. We discuss how primary cam morphology and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome might develop.

Dr Sara Lynn Terrell (Florida Southern College) shares her >20 years of experience in exercise science and strength & conditioning, and walks listeners through the complexity of working with youth athletes to support their best sports performance.

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RESOURCES

Strategies to deter primary cam morphology in youth athletes: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/josptopen.2025.0128

Oxford consensus on primary cam morphology and FAI (part 1): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36588401/

Oxford consensus on primary cam morphology and FAI (part 2): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36588402/