Sport Injury Statistics 
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Injury is an integral part of sports. All sports are susceptible to injuries, not merely because of trauma of body contact with another player but also because of misuse or overuse of some body parts.
As is to be expected, contact sports like football, hockey, American football, rugby and Australian football record the highest number of traumatic injuries. These can range from relatively minor injuries like sprains and strains, to more serious fractures and head injuries.
Boxing of course carries additional risks of its own and can sometimes result in concussion, broken ribs and other bones, damaged organs and on rare occasions, brain injury.
The following table of injuries is a 2006 compilation by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS).
Estimated Number |
Sport and Type of Injury |
490,434 |
Bicycling - Feet caught in spokes, head injuries from falls, slipping while carrying bicycles, collisions with cars. |
460,210 |
Football - Fractured wrists, chipped teeth, neck strains, head lacerations, dislocated hips and jammed fingers. |
164,607 |
Swimming - Head injuries from hitting the bottom of pools, and leg injuries from accidentally falling into pools. |
186,544 |
Soccer - Twisted ankles or knees after falls, fractured arms during games. |
529,837 |
Basketball - Cut hands, sprained ankles, broken legs, eye and forehead injuries. |
269,249 |
Exercise, Exercise Equipment - Twisted ankles and cut chins from tripping on treadmills. Head injuries from falling backward from exercise balls, ankle sprains from jumping rope. |
275,123 |
ATVs, Mopeds, Minibikes - Riders of ATVs were frequently injured when they were thrown from vehicles. There were also fractured wrists, dislocated hands, shoulder sprains, head cuts and lumbar strains. |
96,119 |
Skiing, Snowboarding - Head injuries from falling, cut legs and faces, sprained knees or shoulders. |
85,580 |
Lacrosse, Rugby, and other Ball Games - Head and facial cuts from getting hit by balls and sticks, injured ankles from falls. |
274,867 |
Baseball, Softball - Head injuries from bats and balls. Ankle injuries from running bases or sliding into them. |
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