In the wake of the controversy surrounding the debut of Friday Night Tykes, a documentary series about competitive youth football in Texas, TSAOG orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist Dr. B. Christian Balldin submitted an opinion paper to the San Antonio Express-News about embracing the benefits of youth sports while taking care to minimize the risk for injury.
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