Active involvement in sport is healthy physically and socially among children and adolescents. Although getting into athletic pursuit also have attendant risks, especially for developing young bodies, clarifies the rheumatologist.org website.

The study was shown by Aurelia Nattiv, an instructor in the University of California Los Angeles Department of Family Medicine, and division of sports medicine in the Department of Orthopedics. Her study focuses more on the future health and quality of life  among young women players.

During the October 2008 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting entitled “Treating the Young Athlete,” Nattiv was one of the lecturers. Dr. Nattiv has worked as head of the American College of Sports Medicine and done reviewed locus outlook about Female Athlete Triad.

Dr. Nattiv charted the current science supporting the adjustment position, which also discusses on common musculoskeletal damages seen in female players, the rheumatologist.org website says. A new report could encourage more hip replacement lawsuits, according to another report from Reuters,

The rheumatologist.org website mentioned that the female athlete triad is currently defined as energy availability, menstrual function, and bone strength, These three interrelated items exist on continuums from health to disease.

Dr. Nattiv added that “energy availability” has replaced the term “eating disorder,” and is defined as the amount of dietary energy remaining for all other physiological functions after energy has been expended in exercise.

A big group of female athletes do not have eating disorder and thus do not fall within the DSM-IV eating disorder diagnoses, the website quoted Dr. Nattiv saying. But these athletes still need information and guidance about meeting their energy needs. Negative energy availability is now considered key to triggering pathologic processes.

Perhaps, current research shows that reduced energy availability is a co-risk factor for lowered bone density, along with menstrual dysfunction.

Dr. Nattiv said that building bone density is crucial and important for young boys and girls in-between ages 10 and 14. Up to 90 percent of highest bone mass is reached that is around age 18. She told her audience during her presentation that it is hard to salvage bone mass and showed slides of severe osteoporosis in women.

She advised the conference members to be hands-on in doing a selection of all girls and women in sports and regular exercise programs for the triad disorders. This selection should include a menstrual history and nutritional habits, among other elements. Dr. Nattiv encouraged  nutrition-based method to increase body weight while warranting acceptable vitamin C and D consumption.

If these will be carefully examined, it will decrease the number of women having health issues concerning cartilages and bones, which may cause  hip pains which led people to have hip implants. Negative feedback had been inevitable and affected men and women had to file a DePuy lawsuit.