Sports Related Injuries

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Many children/ young teens have been victim of unfair sports leading to lifelong injuries. These children are playing to the point of where they cannot play anymore. They are normally being forced to play and they fear if they don’t play the game they will become a failure. Sports were made for children to have fun and begin their social lives. Nowadays, sports are just competition that leads to injuries; which is not OK anymore. These children have to live their everyday lives with their injuries and it strips them from having fun in the sport they used to love.
1.3 to 3.5 million children, from the ages of 6 to 19, end up with sports related injuries (Healy, USA TODAY). This results in an injury every 25 seconds; this results in a cost of roughly $935 million dollars a year. There are multiple …show more content…

Next would be Basketball which has 389,610 injuries; then, Soccer at 172,472 injuries; and Baseball with 119,810 injuries; finally, Softball has 58,210 injuries. Granted, these numbers are only the ones recorded in an ER setting. Competition sports are just too dangerous for these children to be playing. 25% of these injuries end up being serious or become chronic injuries. Children at the earlier age of 7 are getting concussions from playing sports. Ages 7 and younger, 5% get concussions, 8 to 11, 19% get concussions, 12 to 15, 47% end up with concussions, and finally, 16 to 19, 29% of the teens get concussions. This is a serious epidemic that needs to be dealt with. Every year Football has 58,080 concussions. Basketball has 32,165, Soccer has 24,840, Baseball has 15,120, and Softball has 6,400 concussions per year. Females involved in sports are more likely to end up with a concussion than males(Healy, USA TODAY). 21% of all traumatic brain injuries are caused by sports related injuries; 62% of all sports injuries happen during sports practice. (Sports Injury

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