Sport injuries in children on the rise

Remi Ramos has been playing competitive tennis for eight years. Last year, an injury changed everything for the 17-year-old athlete.

"I was in the middle of a four-hour match, and I slid on the clay courts, and I felt something pop in my hip," Ramos said.

Ramos had a labral tear in both hip joints. Surgeries would require more than a year off the court - a time at the height of college recruiting.

"It couldn't have been a worse time for this to happen," Ramos said.

More than 3.5 million kids receive treatment for a sports injury every year. In the past decade, football injuries rose 23 percent. Since 2000, there's been a five-fold increase in shoulder and elbow injuries among baseball and softball players.

Now, hospitals around the country are expanding their programs to care for young, injured athletes.

"What we found at our center is that there are a lot of young kids participating in sports, probably more young kids than there are weekend warriors, who are injuring their hips." Jeremy Frank, a pediatric sports medicine specialist at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital.

To fix Ramos' injury, Frank made three small incisions to stitch part of her hip joint, called the labrum, and re-shape the ball and socket.

It's been a long road to recovery for Ramos, but she refuses to give up.

"There was no stopping me from coming back," Ramos said.

After a year and four months of recovery, Ramos is training for her first tournament.

"I'm extremely nervous, but I'm extremely excited!" Ramos said.