Students Who Get Enough Sleep Suffer Far Fewer Athletic Injuries.

Submitted by WhitesCreek on October 21, 2012 - 7:01pm.

Parents, Coaches, Teachers...Pay Attention Please:

Adolescent athletes who slept eight or more hours each night were 68 percent less likely to be injured than athletes who regularly slept less, according to an abstract presented Oct. 21, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans.

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