How Often do Sports Injuries Happen?
Teenage participation in sports has physiological, psychological, and social benefits. These include improvements in health, self-esteem, social relationships, and a reduced chance of depression. Still, playing sports is inextricably linked to getting hurt. Also, this problem is getting worse because more and more teens are playing sports today.
According to a survey, sports-related injuries affect 3.5 million kids and teenagers under 15 annually in the United States alone. An estimated 23 million African teenagers get hurt while playing sports every year, and two-thirds need to go to the emergency room. Similarly,
Sports-related injuries account for around 20% of all ER visits among children between 6 and 19.
In Sport: Injuries Rate and Statistics
- Approximately 12 million people between the ages of 5 and 22 suffer a sport-related injury every year, which results in 20 million days lost from school3 and costs the nation’s health care system over $33 billion.
- Compared to boys, more than 12 percent of girls treated in the emergency room after playing youth basketball had concussions.
- Bicycling, skateboarding, and skating accidents account for about half of all head injuries suffered while participating in sports or leisure activities.
Sports Injuries Happen: When and Where
Though sports injuries can happen to anyone, several things can make them more likely to occur.
The following are some of the risk factors for sports injuries:
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- Not using proper exercise techniques.
- Not wearing appropriate safety equipment.
- On challenging terrain while running and jumping.
- Too quickly a change in physical exercise intensity
- Sports with much physical contact and collisions have the most significant injury rates.
Types of Sports and Leisure Activities
According to data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) of the U.S.1.9, millions of people received emergency room treatment for sports-related injuries. Sports brought about the following:
Basketball: Nationally, emergency departments treated about 570,000 basketball-related injuries, of which more than 8,000 required hospitalizations.
Bicycle: Nationally, emergency departments treated about 557,000 bicycle-related injuries, over 42,000 requiring hospitalizations.
Football: More than 466,000 people went to emergency rooms because of football injuries, and about 10,000 had to stay in the hospital.
Baseball: Nationally, emergency rooms treated more than 265,000 baseball- and softball-related injuries, of which more than 4,500 required hospitalizations.
Skating: More than 66,000 kids ages 5 to 14 were taken to hospital emergency rooms because they hurt themselves skateboarding.
Hockey: About 20,000 kids between the ages of 5 and 14 went to hospital emergency rooms because of ice hockey injuries.
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