High school football, wrestling athletes suffer highest rate of severe injuries

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 15:42 in Health & Medicine

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- High school football and wrestling athletes experienced the highest rate of severe injuries, according to the first study to examine severe injuries -- injuries that caused high school athletes to miss more than 21 days of sport participation among a nationally representative sample of high school athletes.

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