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Sports-Related Injury In High School Sports

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BOOM! My head slams into the glass. Then suddenly I feel weak as I fall down to the ice. As I look up, my coach appears next to me asking me if I’m okay. At that very moment I feel lost as I can barely think, laying in pain on the ice. I’m sure that this is not the only story of someone getting injured in sports nowadays. The reason I say this is because, all sports and at any age are becoming too intense. It’s not always the people playing the sports either. I have experienced and witnessed it all myself.

As sports get more and more intense over the years, the injuries become more intense as well. Also with the fact that the number of injuries in sports is on the rise. With up to 20 to 30 million kids playing sports each year, more than 4 million are reporting sports-related injuries. From these sports-related injuries, millions of them could have lasting affects on young bodies. To add on to this, about 175,000 kids are treated for concussions each year because of sports-related activities. This is not all either, more athletes are showing up injured or having significant injuries in high school sports. This news is very surprising because people did not see these things happening 15 years ago. …show more content…

That’s not all either, about 87 percent of kids felt there parents pushed them way too much in their sport. So in reality, this is a main factor of why sports are getting too intense. But all we are doing is contributing to it getting

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