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(HealthDayNews) -- If you're coaching your child's Little League baseball team, Temple University Hospital offers these tips for keeping your players healthy:

• Have players stretch muscles related to their activity. For example, a pitcher should focus on his arm and back muscles; a catcher on his legs and back.
• Make sure the kids warm up before playing.
• Don't encourage your team to play through pain; pain is a warning sign of injury.
• Injuries that look like sprains in adults can be fractures in kids.
• Children's growth spurts can make for heightened injury risk, with growth plates -- the area of growth in the bone -- particularly sensitive.
• Swelling with pain and limited motion may mean the child has a more serious injury than initially suspected.
• Rest and ice packs are the best treatments for minor injuries in kids.