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

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 09:07 in Health & Medicine

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. Severe injuries accounted for 15 percent of all high school sport-related injuries...

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