High School athletes have an estimated 2 million injuries, 500,000 doctor visits, and 30,000 hospitalizations per year (Powell and Barber-Foss). This paper will discuss injuries in High School athletes. There are laws in place to protect the students but often times these laws are broken. A high school student athletes health and safety should be the number one priority because coaches should be teaching the athletes how to take care if their bodies responsibly, concussions put you behind academically, and it puts their future in sports in jeopardy.
