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These high school sports have the highest concussion rates


Study highlights high school sports with highest concussion rates

A new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics found that concussion rates in football games are on the rise. However, the rates of football ...

Increased Concussions Among High School Athletes

Not only did girls' soccer players continue to have a higher proportion of concussions compared to boys' football players (29.8% vs. 25.2%, ...

These High School Sports Have the Highest Concussion Rates

The rates of football practice concussions and recurrent concussions across all sports have gone down in recent years, according to the ...

Most Dangerous Sports for Students - QuoteWizard

Hockey has the highest rate of concussion-related injuries, followed by snowboarding and football. Concussions in each sport. Sport, % of ...

What Sport Has The Most Injuries | Sports Concussions

If you evaluate the statistics, basketball has the highest injury frequency, causing 40,000 more injuries than football on average. However, ...

Understanding and Preventing Sports-Related Youth Concussions

Children who play sports are susceptible to sports injuries, and concussions are in the top ten. Though football has the highest concussion rate ...

12.10 Concussion rates in U.S. middle school athletes from the 2015 ...

Sports with the highest IRs were football (1.38/1000 AE, 95%CI= 1.06–1.69), girls' soccer (1.26/1000 AE, 95%CI= 0.77–1.75), and wrestling (1.12/ ...

Who Has More Risk For Concussions? | Shoals Primary Care

A recent study showed that concussions constitute 8.9% of high school athletic injuries and 5.8% of collegiate athletic injuries. Meaning that if we round these ...

Concussion affects 1 in 10 youth athletes every year. Here's what ...

The highest concussion incidence rates among youth in Canada are seen in rugby, ice hockey and football. We expect one in 10 Canadians ages 13 ...

Football Players Aren't the Only School Athletes at Risk for ...

Concussion Rates by School Athletic Activity · Concussions Don't Need Player-on-Player Collisions to Occur in Athletics · Concussions in ...

3 High School Sports with the Highest Concussion Rates

While the study found that most concussions happened in competition, one sport, cheerleading, had a higher rate of concussions in practice than ...

MHSAA data reveals sports with highest concussion rates

The MHSAA says its member high schools handled 3,580 head injury cases during the 2017-2018 school year – averaging out to 4.8 concussions per ...

The High School Sports with Highest Risk for Head Injuries

For girls, basketball had a higher rate of head impacts than lacrosse or field hockey and was similar to the rate in boys' lacrosse, the findings showed. The ...

MIDDLE SCHOOL CONCUSSION RATES HIGHER THAN HIGH ...

The research also concluded that middle school athletes playing football had the greatest overall concussion rate, girls suffered concussions twice as much ...

Youth Sports and Brain Safety: Which sports carry the greatest risk ...

In the United States, football is consistently the sport with the highest overall number and rate of concussions. This is true across all levels ...

Girls in Sports: Which high school sport has the most concussions?

According to recent research undertaken by several injury prevention and healthcare organizations, the highest concussion rates among high ...

Surveys: Reduction in Concussions, Improvement in Mental Health ...

In 2015-16, a total of 367,306 concussions were recorded (competition and practice) in the nine sports (football, boys soccer, girls soccer, ...

How Common are Concussions in High School Football?

According to recent studies, high school football players are more likely to suffer concussions than college or professional athletes. In this ...

Brain health considerations in the modern lacrosse athlete

For all high school boys' sports, lacrosse ranks number 3 for sports with the highest prevalence of concussions. Concussions most frequently result from athlete ...

Girls' soccer has highest concussion rate of high school sports, study ...

Football, a sport most typically associated with brain injury but also has a high number of total injuries due to its being a collision ...