Katie H.
Mrs. Zurkowski
English 9 Greens
25 September 2010
Article #2 Notes
Brown, Curt. "Playing Hurt: Injuries in Youth Sports." Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN). Nov. 1 1992: 1S+. SIRS Researcher. Web. 24 Sep 2010.
v Sports injuries is an epidemic that affects 12 million kids a year.
v A third of all sports injuries occur in players that are the age of 14 or younger.
v Almost 4 million kids a year are in the emergency room because of a sports injury.
v Some injuries are harder to prevent because when a player feels invincible, they play more dangerously and with more power.
v Injuries can ruin ones career in the sport they are playing. When you have a driving force to win, overuse injuries occur. Some kids see injuries as inescapable, while others are almost relieved.
v When it comes to injuries in general the outcome will always be expensive. Especially if the injury requires having surgery to fix it. People can end up with a lot of debt with medical bills and insurance payments.
v Injuries will always be a part of sports, but there are ways to protect youth athletes, and help them be safer. Coaching techniques, new rules, and safer equipment and training could help do this.
v “The lack of public awareness, the assumption that kids’ injuries just happen ad can’t be prevented is simply ignorance,” Dr. Lyle Micheli.
v Around 140,000 young baseball players went to the emergency room in 1990, 18,000 with facial injuries.
v Baseball is the most dangerous sport when it comes to head and facial injuries.
v Most common injuries with players that collide, slide, or get hit by the ball suffer broken noses and jaws, eye injuries, fractured cheekbones, broken limbs and knee damage.
v Ways to prevent baseball injuries are: face masks on batting helmets, and heart guard worn on the chest.
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