Injuries in High School Sports

Injuries in High School Sports
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Introduction
In high school, one of the activities that gain unrivaled participation and unwavering enthusiasm to excel is sports. Most of the students will take part in sports and those who do take active roles, cheer their teams and favorite athletes. Of importance is the fact that, as students struggle to excel in sports to clinch the coveted scholarships and fire up their professional careers sports, the rate of injuries has also gone up and have a profound impact. This paper addresses suggested ways of reducing the injuries in an effort to uphold safety for the high school students.
Thesis statement: high school sports injuries should be reduced to ensure safety to the students.
Statistics
* Epidemiological statistics supporting the discussion on the number injuries in the high school sports and the level of prevalence indicate a staggering number of injuries.
* A study carried out between 2005 and 2006 by Rechel et al, indicates that in 100 schools that were involved in the study, there were more than 4,350 injuries.
* This statistics is an indication of how rife the injuries problems in high school are and justifies the need to remedy the situation.
Injuries
* Other than the physical injuries to the students, the statistics also indicates the prevalence of brain injuries.
* Comstock, Knox, Yard & Gilchrist (2006), in their research indicate that there is quite a number of injuries which are quite common among the high school students,
* Traumatic Brain Injury is one of the most common type of injuries that the high school students have developed (Harvey, 2013).
* Physical injuries are a common part of an adolescent life, given the level of acti...