The Preventive Medicine Podcast

Episode 70 | Pediatric Sports Medicine – Dr. Kevin Walter, MD

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Kevin Walter, MD is a board certified pediatric sports medicine physician that specializes in helping children with various sports and musculoskeletal related problems. He is the medical director of pediatric and adolescent sports medicine at Children’s Hospital Wisconsin, an associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, has published several papers on concussions in children, and is avidly active in advocacy for safety in youth sports. 

Show Notes
  1. What does preventive medicine mean to you and how do you apply that to pediatrics?
  2. Pediatric sports medicine is a pretty niche field until your kid breaks a bone or gets involved in sports. What led you to this field?
  3. What are the biggest differences between adults and children when it comes to sports medicine?
  4. Summer is coming, whats the best way to keep kids out of your exam room?
  5. What’s the deal with concussions. What are they? How many can you have as a kid? Does this mean you won’t be as smart in the future?
  6. Kids these days are in a hypercompetitive sports environment and find themselves playing a single sport year round so they can become the next tiger woods or michael phelps. What do you think about specialization at such an early age when it comes to sports?
  7. How early is too early to start thinking about organized sports?
  8. If there was one thing you wanted listeners to take away from this podcast? What would it be?
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