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Athletic Injury: Swimming Is Not A Contact Sport

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Chances are, high schools are teeming with students walking down the hallway with crutches or a knee brace. In a high school environment, this is likely the cause of an athletic injury, the result of a contact sport. However, one high injury sport is not a contact sport. Swimming combines strenuous core, upper, and lower body training with cardiovascular fitness. As four strokes are recognized in competitive swimming (freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, and breastroke), the most prominent being freestyle, the repetitive motions of the strokes cause muscioskeletal injuries. Swimming has been celebrated as a sport since the 19th century. Breaststroke was the first form used, although more strokes were added over time. In the history of the organized

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