selection of injuries. This article is all about the most dangerous sport due to how many injuries the sport has. 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…
Understanding the Importance of Sports Injuries Injury prevention is an important aspect of youth and elite sports programs across the country. More and more kids today are choosing to partake in deep play sports such as football, basketball, hockey, etc. With the program attendance growing higher and higher the injuries are also increasing; more than 38 million adolescents and children participate in organized sports programs, and even more than that participate in informal and unorganized…
Jeev Milkha Singh once said “Injuries is a part of a sportsman life; you have to live with it. You can’t be down with that; it is not gonna help you.” for athletes who went through a difficult injury. There are four most common injuries in tennis are Tennis Elbow, Shoulder injuries, Stress Fractures, and Muscle Strains. The most injury tennis athletes had was tennis elbow. It is caused by overuse of muscles that extend the wrist or bend it backwards. It is the most used muscle when playing…
Increasing Problem of ACL Injuries Is there something we can do to prevent more ACL injuries in the future? ACL injuries are taking out athletes from sports one-hundred thousand to three-hundred thousand each year (Hewett, 2010). Females especially are suffering the most from this specific injury. The ACL muscle is located in your knee and has many functions. It helps keep the tibia from moving forward, keeps the knee from extending farther than it should, and keep the shock absorbers safe from…
helps students stay healthy and fit, it makes these athletes more vulnerable to sports injuries, which can affect the student. Students with sports injuries who have received help as soon as possible are able to get back into practice and games within a week. But, athletes hate when they have to sit on the sidelines or be benched. So, when students choose to keep injuries to themselves, they may cause the injury to worsen, which makes them have to wait weeks or even when the season ends to…
incidence rates in professional players, soccer leads to to 3.4 injuries per 1000 training hours and 21.9 injuries per 1000 match hours (Beijsterveldt et al, 2012). Hamstring strain are common injuries in soccer players, typically occur during sprinting, with a high recurrence rate (11–30%), that lead to an incapability to play till up to 90 days (Hallen & Ekstrand, 2014). A recurrent hamstring injury (RHI) is delineated as an injury of the same site and same type of hamstring and which occurs…
Defined as an injury to one or more ligaments in the ankle, ankle sprains refer to the ligaments in and around the ankle which bear the forefront of all impact from the human body. The ankle ligaments are strong and fibrous to ensure that they hold the surrounding bones in place during all levels of impact. Ankle ligaments are divided into subsections consisting of the medial and lateral ligaments, medial meaning inside of the foot, and lateral referring to the ligaments that support the outside…
Workplace injuries and sicknesses affect people that are hurt or sick leading to or causing physical impairment, functional limitations, and loss of wages from missing work and limitation to the worker's ability to do their job appropriately. The job position of an employee is a major concern especially when dealing with manual labor. Some examples of manual labor that are major concerns are repetitive moving of components while lifting heavy loads, workers can suffer from back pain,…
Eye Injury Prevention Month Facts and Tips According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, it is estimated that up to 90% of eye injuries could have been prevented if protective eyewear was worn! There are over 2 million eye injuries in the United States annually, and while some of these are from unavoidable injuries such as a car accident or a fall, many of these injuries occur due to not wearing the proper protective eyewear. Protecting your eyes from injury is the most basic prevention…
Every day in the United States, there is an estimate of 28,000 injuries of the ankle. Unfortunately, one type of injury that is the most common in athletes is the ankle sprain. Any kind of sport that is played by any age can get a sprain in their ankle. The first key point was about which sports cause ankle injuries the most. The top three sports to cause ankle sprains are field hockey, volleyball, and football. The second key point is about where a sprain can form and how a sprain can come…