Shoulder Injuries Most Comon Among High Schoolers

High school players’ risk of injury varies in accordance to the sport they play, but the risk is greater for boys than girls. As for the most common type of injury experienced by young players, shoulder injuries topped the list among football players, followed distantly by wrestlers and baseball players. Boys were twice as likely as girls to experience shoulder injuries, which were three times more likely to occur during competition than practice. Sprains and strains accounted for 39.6% of all shoulder injuries, followed by dislocations/separations (23.7%), contusions (11.5%), and fractures (6.6%). The most common mechanisms of injury were player-to-player contact (57.6%) and contact with the playing surface (22.8%). According to the study mentioned above, athletes returned to play within a week of a shoulder injury in 44.8% of cases, but 22.9% of the injuries kept players on the bench for more than three weeks.

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