Physiological effects of wrestling in adolescents and teenagers.

Abstract

Adolescents and teen-agers are relatively neglected age groups in the medical and sports medicine literature. Published reports on the physiological effects of amateur wrestling upon the age group between puberty and adulthood are for the most part nonexistent, even in the non-English literature of countries where the sport plays a more dominant role within the sports community. The purpose of the present paper is to compilate some of the available reports of the physiological effects of physical training upon the pre-adult age groups and to relate