Sports most likely to cause injuries

 Injuries are an implicit risk in any activity. They can happen staying at home, while walking down the stairs and, of course, if you're doing any activity.

To take notes about this topic is important to know the characteristics of each sport and then we must compare their injury indexes.

Injury index: It is an average number of injuries that happens, per one thousand hours of practice, in a particular activity.

A rookie in sports like skating or boxing is likely to get injured until he masterize his technique. Also if you practice a contact sport such as footbal or rugby you are able to injure easily.

Now, we must start with the ranking:

  1. Rugby: It has got a rate of 17 injuries per one thousand hours of practice. The contact added to the particularity of the footwear, makes contusions and ligament problems very common.
  2. Squash: Squash is the root cause of back injuries, heart problems (due to its high demand) and muscular problems. This is because it is played in avery small space, at a very high speed and with  constant directional changes. This results in at least one injury per year to the 52% of the players.
  3. Boxing: Wrestling sports pose a masive risk of minor injuries, such as bruises or cuts. Or other serious injuries, such as broken ribs, internal bleeding and brain damage.
  4. Basketball: The high physical demand can trigger muscular problems. Basketball players suffer 5,2 injuries all thousand hours of practice.
  5. Running: The knees are the most vulnerable part of the body. They suffer between 2,5 and 12,1 al one thousand hours of running.
  6. Soccer: It generates more injuries in professionals than in amateurs. Its index is between 12,7 and 68,7 per one thousand hours of competition.
  7. Crossfit: It has an injury rate of around 3,1 injuries per one thousand. It indicates that it is a fairly safe sport.

Links:

https://fitpeople.com/fitness/which-sport-generates-the-most-injuries/

https://orthomiami.com/sports-physical-activities-that-cause-the-most-injuries/

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