- Sep 19, 2011
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Football sucks, if anything else caused that much childhood brain injury it would be banned, but they let little kids do it because it "builds character". Also the very idea that football coaches are our highest paid educators is ludicrous.
Please one more ANECDOTAL blown WAY out of proportion! "Brain injuries"!
" In a study of youth football injuries compiled by the Mayo Clinic, of Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. Michael J. Stuart, M.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon said, "Our analysis showed that youth football injuries are uncommon."
Dr. Stuart and his colleagues studied 915 players aged 9-13 years.
The Mayo Clinic study injury incidence rate ranged from nine injuries for every 100,000 player plays for fourth graders
to 33 injuries per 100,000 player plays for eighth graders.
The most common injury was a contusion.
Only four injuries were severe enough to prevent players from returning to play in games following their injuries.
None of the injuries required hospitalization or surgery.
The Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma report studied the injury experience of 5,128 boys 8-15 years of age in 71 Pop Warner leagues in New York.
No catastrophic injuries occurred during the Pop Warner study.
The study showed that 1.33 injuries occurred per team during the season that required physician treatment.
None of the injuries reported produced permanent disability in approximately 620,000 hours of football participation.
An annual study produced at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that high school and college-level catastrophic football injuries and deaths have dropped significantly for 35 years.
New coaching techniques have helped reduce the number of deaths and catastrophic injuries.
Heat acclimation, however, poses a greater risk each year to football players.
In 2010, the last year of the UNC study, the number of heat/heart deaths was reported as 11.
Nine of these deaths were in high school football and two were in college football. No heat/heart deaths were reported for youth football in 2010.
The UNC study also showed that football contact injuries generated 2 deaths and 10 catastrophic injuries among more than 6 million estimated players in 2010.
Youth Today
So PLEASE stick with the f...king FACTS and quit this anecdotalizing of single events... rare events... making them sound like it HAPPENS ALL THE TIME !
I am really really fed up with you idiots that take a single rare event and blow it WAY out of proportion!
EVERY ONE of your anecdotes represents 99% of the time NOTHING happened except that one event! 99% of the time NO injuries...NO DEATHS!! NO events!