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    Re: [RC] there is no way that young and small a body can ride astride a horse that many hours without damage - Heidi Smith


    >    A snippet from that one:  "Coaches and parents should remember that
    > children are not small adults. A child's bones, tendons, muscles and
    > ligaments develop unevenly increasing the risk of injury."
    
    And what a great alternative endurance is to running sports that are
    concussive, contact sports that have such potential to cause trauma, etc.
    Sorry, Joe--horseback riding is often used as therapy for people who CAN'T
    participate in other sports, precisely because it is NOT traumatic to them.
    
    >   The book "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of
    > Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters," available on amazon.com
    
    Again, endurance does not put the extreme pressure on kids to spring higher,
    harder, stretch further, etc. the way that the above sports do.
    
    >    A snippet from that one:  "Overuse injuries occur from repetitive
    > actions that put too much stress on the musculoskeletal system.
    
    Key phrase there--"that put too much stress on the musculoskeletal system."
    The beauty of riding is that it does NOT do that.  In fact, riding is a
    great asset to developing sensory integration in kids who are challenged in
    that area, precisely because it does NOT stress them.
    
    > Although these injuries can occur in adults as well as children, they
    > are more problematic in a child athlete because of the effect they may
    > have on your child's bone growth. Any child who plays sports can
    > develop overuse injuries, although the more time your child spends on
    > the sport, the more likely your child is to experience an overuse
    > injury."
    
    Please tell me what part of the anatomy (with possible exception of skin) is
    subjected to overuse in riding....  Kids are for the most part relaxed
    riders--the ones I've observed doing endurance are far more apt to get hurt
    in the football game they get up with the other juniors after the ride than
    they are on their horses.
    
    Heidi
    
    
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