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Kids Sports Injuries

By dpennypacker on Jul 05, 2007
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From a survey of 100 hospitals, this data set shows then number of sports injuries per sport, and the percentages of age ranges injured.

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National Youth Sports Safety Foundation

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Rows 39

Columns 5

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Sport & Product Code	Estimated # of Cases	Age Percents Age 0-4	Age Percents Age 5-14	Age Percents Age 15-24

Track & Field	15,560	0.0	40.9	54.6
Trampolines	95,239	9.6	69.6	14.0
Volleyball	66,191	0.1	25.2	42.6
Water Skiing	14,487	0.0	4.7	32.9
Weight Lifting	60,039	5.9	12.1	34.7
Wrestling	43,917	1.3	36.4	51.7
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as a parent, I'm more interested in the rate of injury. Should I put my kid in rugby, ice hockey, squash or basketball? This suggests that basketball has high injuries, but I'm assuming that is because basketball has the highest partcipation rate.

Rugby has a low number, but I'll bet as a percentage of the people that play rugby, a high number sustain injury.

posted about 1 year ago

dpennypacker

dpennypacker says

Yeah I agree. I think alot more kids play basketball, so it makes sense there are more injuries. I'll look for that data!

posted about 1 year ago

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