The Number Of Injuries In Sports

Injuries are one of the top reasons why sports are bad for kids. In the video we watched from WCPO called “Pressure On Teen Athletes Sore” they say that the amount of injuries have increased from 7 Thousand to 22 Thousand a year. The amount tripled. It is said that the injured children's families spent $30,000 in six months. This source also said that the more sports you play there is an increased risk of getting an injury. In one of the article called “ High School, College Football Comes With Risk. In this article a Primary Investigator at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio named R. Dawn Comstock states that there might be more injuries in some school because some schools

That isn’t the case for most kids. For a lot of kids in competitive sports, it doesn’t matter how careful you are, you are bound to get hurt once or twice a year. When kids play competitive sports, they can get hurt pretty badly. A lot of kids break bones, get concussions, or other injuries while playing in competitive sports. Also, since kids are growing more, they seem to have more troubles with injuries than adults do, and according to the NCBI, “Due to the rapid expansion of bones while growing and slowly elongating muscles, tension develops across the growth plates, the apophyses, and the joints. Most injuries happen during practices, and competitive sports teams have more practices than non competitive.”. (NCBI). Concussions are very dangerous, and according to Prevacus Inc., “There are between an estimated 1.6 and 3.8 million sports-related concussions in the United States every year,” (Prevacus). Also, USA Today said; There may be a lot of concussions, but there are also a lot more injuries too, “Sprains and strains, fractures, contusions, abrasions and concussions top the list of sports-related ER diagnoses for kids ages 6 to 19 — at a cost of more than $935 million each year.” (USA Today). Which is why competitive sports are very

However, other sports have injury rates that are just as high, or higher. So contact sports should not be banned. Many people agree that the top 3 most dangerous sports are not contact sports (The Top Ten 1). They are horseback riding, bull riding, and gymnastics. Also, the sport with the most injuries per year is basketball, with about 119,589 injuries every year (Hoffman 4). So, contact sports should not be banned. Also, injuries in contact sports are not just concussions and broken bones. Children who participate in contact sports are just as likely to be injured from heat stroke or exhaustion as someone who plays soccer or volleyball. So, you cannot blame injuries in contact sports all on the sports themselves, because some of the injuries can happen anywhere. You could even just slip and break your arm. Injuries do not just happen in contact sports. Also, people who participate in contact sports, or any sport for that matter, take the calculated risk that they could get injured while playing. However, some people believe that playing contact sports bring more injuries to the table as other sports. Well, with the sport with the most injuries per year being basketball, a non-contact sport, this argument is invalid and does not really hold up to the evidence. So, contact sports should not be outlawed because they are just as dangerous, if not less, than other

Young children having major physical injuries while participating in sports should be of more concern. In the article High School Football Comes With a Risk, by Jeffrey Perkel it states that, “...boys aged 10 to 14 we’re most likely to end up in the nation’s emergency departments with a traumatic brain injury…,” This shows how adolescents are unnecessarily hurting themselves because of these sports. Expectedly, during the 2005-2006 US high school football season an , estimate of 517, 726 injuries were submitted to the RIO. Even my own personal experiences with sports all ended in tragic faults. Swimming with

A Worldwide survey of emergency room visits shows that about every 25 seconds, a young athlete visits a hospital emergency room from a sports-related injury (Loehrke and Healy, USA TODAY). Occasional bumps and bruises are expected when kids play sports, but when almost 1.4 million kids are injured and sent to hospitals its catches someone’s eye. Sprains, strains, fractures, contusions, abrasions, and concussions all top the list of ER diagnoses for kids age 6-19. That’s averaging a cost of up to 935 million a year. Many believe these are preventable (Carr, Safe Kids).

On chw.com it states, “In 1998, nearly 200,000 children ages 5-14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for basketball related injuries. Majority of children were boys (70%)”. (Sports Injuries). It is saying that there are more injuries treated in the emergency room for basketball than hockey. Annually there are about 215,000 kids ages 5-14 are treated in the emergency room for football related injuries, in basketball there are more than 170,000, and in hockey there are only around 20,000 treated in the emergency room per year. Many people say that hockey is just as dangerous as football, but almost 11 times more injuries occur in football than hockey. Football, wrestling, and cheerleading send athletes to the emergency room every 25 seconds. While reading this there were probably about 6 kids sent to the emergency room just from those three sports. The top three dangerous sports right now are basketball, bicycling, and football, hockey is not even in the top 15. Most injuries in those sports are torn

According to stopsportsinjuries.org, high school athletes make up two million sports injuries, half a million doctor’s visits and 30,000 hospitalizations each year. Those numbers are huge, and a large part of them could have been avoided. The website also goes on to give more specific statistics, and of those, it is mentioned that half of the injuries that student athletes get in middle or high school are from overuse. And of the sports injuries listed on their website, over half of them are

According to yard house from “ A comparison of high school sport injury surveillance data reporting by certified athletic trainer and coaches”, “High school athletes sustain more than 1.4 million injuries annually”. Many of these injuries are caused because public high school do not provide enough professional care for athletes. Some of the reasons that athletes are not provided with right care is because of insurance, proper equipment and educated professionals to treat injuries.

Football players are always getting injured every year in professional,college, and high school football. In the article “Percentage of Kids Who Are Injured in Football” by Michelle Kulas she says “In 2013, USA Football released preliminary findings after the first year of a multi-year study. They note that fewer than 10 percent of youth football players incur an injury, and of those injuries, 64 percent are considered minor injuries.” 10 percent of the youth get injured every year, that's a huge number for children. Next, football players have a high risk to get injured. Also, In the article “Preventing Football Injuries” it says “Football players also have a higher chance of ankle sprains due to the surfaces played

Every year there is more and more worries about whether or not football should be discontinued because of all the traumatic brain injuries that happen to all different aged kids. “A concussion is defined as a complex pathophysiological process that affects the brain, typically induced by trauma to the brain” (Concussion). With over “1.6 million to 3.8 million concussions occurring each year”(Concussion) this debate could be a highly one sided decision whether or not to end the game of American Football. “More than one million young athletes play highschool football every year” (Kounang). This is only including high school so these numbers do not include college or the

II. The type of serious injuries that are sustained in American football, can they are prevented or at least reduced?

According to “SCOPE-Sports in schools” It states that Overuse injuries account for nearly half of all sports injuries to middle and high school students. Young teens are being pushed harder than they have ever been before, statistics show that by the time children are 16 their bodys are already experiencing some major malfunctions due to overuse injuries. A cli from “Overuse of young athletes- 60 minutes” states that because children are doing the same sport all year and pushing their limits, they are wearing away their bodies even faster. This is very unhealthy for young children especially because when the children work hard you can tell and now a days 6 and 7 year olds are playing like 12 and 13 year olds and pushing all of their

The main research of this paper is Sports injuries. Sport injuries are very common in the modern world and it has severe effects in the life of athletes. Injuries related to sport can lead to loss of life, body parts or career depending on the severity of the accident. Sport injuries have several negative impacts on the physical, mental, social ability of athletes. To accomplish the paper appropriately some real-life examples have been included in this research, for illustration. For better understanding of the rise of the sports related injuries, a graph has been mentioned that shows the difference between the numbers of sports injuries recently compared to 2004. Finally the research paper has been concluded by proving that

In the U.S there are thirty million or more children/teens that participate in sports. Out of the 30 million children/teens that participate in sports, 3.5 million of those children/teens get injured each year.

Injuries play a big role in an athlete's career and his or her overall health, although minor injuries are often nothing to worry about they can lead to something serious especially if the injury is repeatedly being aggravated. scrapes, cuts, bruises, and broken bones are all things to worry about. When a player is injured he or she is losing play time and money and why risk this when there is small but giant steps that can be taken to prevent injuries. But brain injuries are something much more serious even if the player says not to worry because something worse than losing playtime is losing your life. Albert C. hergenroeder has written an article on preventing sports injuries, he says that there are 3 million sports injuries among kids around