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1. 11 Injury-Prone High School Sports
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With the school year well under way, and
Thanksgiving on the horizon, many fall athletes are
winding down their seasons while winter athletes
prepare to gear up for theirs.
But as student athletes take the field, some parents
worry about potential injuries to their children.
Fear not. While students are at play, researchers
are gathering data in the hopes of preventing the
injuries that can shorten a young athlete's season.
And while injuries do occur, the risks of playing
sports may be far outweighed by the risks of not
playing them.
"We never want any of our injury research to scare
any parent into pulling their kid out of sports," said
epidemiologist Dawn Comstock, a principal
investigator at the Center for Injury Research and
Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in
Columbus, Ohio.
"The long-term negative health risks associated with an inactive lifestyle are much more serious
than the potential of sports-related injury."
She also noted that the vast majority of sports-related injuries are minor.
"We actually want to see more kids play sports and be physically active more often. We just want to
keep them as safe as possible while they're out there."
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For those who want to learn more about the injury rates and risks, as well as some ways
researchers, coaches and the athletes themselves are trying to prevent them, we present 11 injury-
prone high school sports.

2. Unsurprisingly, football leads a number of safety studies as the most dangerous sport.
Frederick O. Mueller of the department of exercise and sport science at the University of North
Carolina does a long-term survey of catastrophic injuries in sports.
His study puts football as the most dangerous in terms of total catastrophic injuries, with 603 -- and
101 of them fatal -- since 1982. 1990 was the only year in the study without a fatality.
"When you just look at the numbers, football has the most http://sports.yahoo.com/ catastrophic
injuries," Mueller said. His data, however, look strictly at catastrophic injuries -- those resulting in
very serious injury or long-term disability.

3. Comstock's data, which tallies every time an
injury causes an athlete to miss at least a day of
practice or competition, shows football as having
a little over 12 injuries per 1,000 players.
But football is also the nation's most popular sport
for high school students. From the 1982-83 school
year through the 2005-06 school year, over 34
million boys and over 16,000 girls played the
game. Over 1 million students play each year.
While the numbers are higher than other sports,
the rates are actually lower than sports like ice
hockey and gymnastics.
Reduced rates of injury have come through rule
changes and improvement of equipment, but
Mueller thinks they can be lowered even more
through better coaching.
"I think so many football injuries can be prevented
if you teach the proper fundamentals of blocking
and tackling," he said. "The big thing is, teaching
the kids not to hit with their heads."
And the mindset of players also might need some changes to keep young players from getting
injured.
"The mindset in football is that you play injured and you don't complain to the coach that you're
hurting," Mueller said.
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