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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 3053796"]
I was seeing 14 as the cutoff age.  Technically by that rule, I was 'specialized' by 14.  Point taken though.

From the research that's out there (the best I found was a compilation of smaller studies for a total sample of about 5,000), I'm still not convinced that it supports specialization as the cause.  At least, not the main cause.

All of them seem to point to volume as the significant factor.  The ones that attempt to keep volume a constant, don't differentiate the sports.  Not all sports are created equal.  Saying you're less likely to get hurt if you play baseball and golf for a while in between sports is not an argument in favor of non-specialization.  It's an argument in favor of decreasing the amount of running and jumping you do.

They need to better identify and separate the contributing factors.  If you're specialized, you're more likely to train longer and harder than if you weren't.  If that's a fact, then training longer and harder seems to be the problem here.

Back to my example of basketball and football; the two most physically demanding sports.  Does the research support that 5 months of basketball and 5 months of football is more or less dangerous than 10 months of just one?  That answer is, at best, unclear from what I've read.
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