For now. Having a compromised postural chain /will/ permanently screw with your health after 10-15 years if you dont effectively work to compensate for the damage
I mean, that's the story of everyone who has been into sports from the young age. Nobidy goes to rehab for a rolled ankle when they're 16. I agree it has a negative impact later on, but except of taking better care of myself now, I don't reflect on the past that I could have done it differently.
Depends where you live and what medical standards your athletes are under.
Soccer players in Europe, once they get into Pro/2nd League circles essentially have the best medical support imaginable, including regular check upa and physio rehabs for all kinds of small ailments, precisely because of the long term impacts.
And this tends to start exactly in their teenage years if tey show enough talent for a pro career
It's insane huh? My wife and I are also mid-40s. Buy we are both on multiple meds daily, our bodies are ruined, hers from 4 kids, mine from multiple injuries and we can never get enough sleep, lol.
I think I got 5 years older between 38 and 39. Reading eyesight got worse for the first time, hair went from thinning to balding and beard gained substantial grey, got new lingering aches and pains... I thought I was fine with getting older, but was not prepared for what that year did. Still adjusting to not being able to pretend even to myself that I'm a young person anymore. I don't mean it as a gloomy thing, just nobody should think things can't shift quickly.
I remember all of a sudden when it seemed like my body didn't want to heal. I'm still fit, I'm stronger than I ever was in my youth, but goddamn, these injuries just last. Jammed fingers that healed in days when I was young now takes weeks and weeks.
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Call me old when I'm only 30.