What is the Most Dangerous Sport
The most dangerous sport due to most injuries in the USA is basketball. Basketball has the most injuries even more than wrestling and football. Basketball is the most dangerous sport because it has a huge amount of injuries for players to have, and in basketball there are a bunch of injuries every season.
Basketball has 2.56 million injuries per year. Also most of the 2.56 million injuries go to the hospital or emergency room. There are about 512,213 basketball injuries that go to the emergency room. About …show more content…
Most injuries in basketball are cut hands, sprained ankles, broken legs, eye and forehead injuries. Also the large number of injuries in the world is due to basketball.
What Are common Injuries for Basketball
Some of the most common injuries are ankle sprains, jammed fingers, knee injuries, deep thigh bruising, facial cuts and foot fractures. 42% of the injuries were to the ankle/foot, 11% were to the hip and thigh, and 9% were to the knee. Some rare injuries are AC joint injury, neck arm pain, DOMS- delayed onset muscle soreness, and spondylolisthesis. Also some more common injuries are thumb sprain, thigh sprain, cramps, heel spur, shin splits, and poor hip core. Those injuries are not even half of the injuries that basketball players have.
Common Treatments for Injuries
Did you know that there are a lot of treatments for all the basketball injuries and they don’t include going to the hospital or going to the emergency room. There are 2 injuries that can be treated with the same treatment. The 2 injuries are ankle sprains and deep thigh bruising. The treatment is called RICE. RICE stands for rest, ice, compression, and