Statistics on Sports Injuries
You Need to Know Before your Children Participates in Any Sports
The top three reasons: adults, coaches and parents.
Among athletes ages 5 to 14, 28 percent of percent of football players,
25 percent of baseball players, 22 percent of soccer players, 15 percent of basketball players, and 12 percent of softball players were injured while playing their respective sports.
Study also found that 70 percent of athletes said they had practiced or played with an injury, compared with 33 percent of non-athletes.
Forty percent of athletes were diagnosed with osteoarthritis after college, compared with 24 percent of non-athletes.
A 2007 study found that, in high school and college football, there are an average of 7.23 catastrophic head injuries per year: there were 0.67 injuries per 100,000 high school players and 0.21 injuries per 100,000 college players.
In the U.S., about 30 million children and teens participate in some form of organized sports, and more than 3.5 million injuries each year, which cause some loss of time of participation, are experienced by the participants. Almost one-third of all injuries incurred in childhood are sports-related injuries.