Many moms might worry about their kids getting hurt playing football, but a new study shows that playing basketball and riding bicycles sent more Americans to the emergency room in 2005.
More than half a million people suffered basketball-related injuries last year, compared to 485,000 hurt on bikes and 418,000 injured playing football.
Trampolines bounced 108,000 U.S. residents into the hospital. And believe it or not, some 47,000 people managed to get hurt playing golf.
"Athletes, youngsters and weekend warriors alike can wind up in hospital emergency rooms for injuries related to these sports," said Pietro Tonino, director of the division of sports medicine at Loyola University Health System. "So before people run to the basketball court, they need to take steps to reduce their injury risk."
Tonino used data from the U.S. Consumer Produce Safety Commission on injuries treated in emergency rooms.
The Top 15:
1. Basketball: 512,213
2. Bicycling: 485,669
3. Football: 418,260
4. Soccer: 174,686
5. Baseball: 155,898
6. Skateboards: 112,544
7. Trampolines: 108,029
8. Softball: 106,884
9. Swimming/Diving: 82,354
10. Horseback riding: 73,576
11. Weightlifting: 65,716
12. Volleyball: 52,091
13. Golf: 47,360
14. Roller skating: 35,003
15. Wrestling: 33,734
Knee injuries, especially to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), are some of the most common and serious, the new study found.
While ACL injuries can be treated with surgery and physical therapy, a way to prevent them is to build up the strength of your hamstrings. Tonino also recommends landing on the balls of your feet with knees bent and butt back, as if you were about to sit in a chair.
from: http://www.livescience.com/health/060614_sport_injuries.html
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The Most Dangerous Sports in America
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10 Most Dangerous Sports in the World
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The Dangerous Sports Club
The Dangerous Sports Club is a circle of friends from Los Angeles to Shanghai linking through David Kirke (not to be confused with Kirkee, a town and military cantonment in Poona district, Bombay, India, 18 degrees 33' N. lat, 73 degrees 54'E. long.) in Oxford England. Many people claim to be members when they are not but that only amuses him. There are members of the DSC who do not know each other and prefer it to remain that way. He has all the records of the club. However as people are continually emailing questions about the club I thought it would be a good idea to put up some information on this site. I've included a recent article on the club and excerpts from David Kirke's last two letters to Louis Greig who participated in the early days in France with skis and sleds that ran on blocks of ice. The letters give an account of the recent marriage in France of Hugo Spowers who designed and steered the grand piano down the slopes of St Moritz while Hubert Gibbs played Chopin on it and give some idea of people in the DSC. Click here for the latest nurdorandum from David Kirke and pictures of the 21st Anniversary jump from Clifton Suspension Bridge. Pictures of the first trebuchet human catapult in Netherstowey.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Scuba Diving
Scuba (an acronym that stands for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) diving is an increasingly popular sport, but imitating fish clearly has its drawbacks. The ascent from a dive, if done too fast, can cause decompression illnesses (including the bends), potentially causing failure of the spinal cord, brain and lungs. Not to mention that sharks passing by might be peckish.
Venues: The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) and Scuba Schools International (SSI) offer open-sea diving certificates training, costing from $150 to nearly $600 for lessons. Florida and California as well as Mexico and Egypt are renowned. Once certified, PADI and Divers Alert Network offer specialist insurance, in the ballpark of $60 to $70. (Travel insurance providers often require an extra 10% to 20% premium. During training, private medical insurance should suffice.)
from: www.forbes.com
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INSIDER INSIGHT: The world in focus
"No, this is not RoboCop."
That's how Michael Feldman, the AP's international photo editor, introduced this photo of a law enforcement officer in Zhengzhou, China. The officer was showing off body armor and a gun that shoots a net to catch dogs.
Meanwhile, a few hundred miles up the road, baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. has some fun during a clinic he's conducting for kids in Beijing.
from: http://asapblogs.typepad.com/news/weird_news/index.html
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