High School Football, Wrestling Athletes Suffer Highest Rate Of Severe Injuries
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 22:07
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.