Fair, I wasn’t aware of this! Though I’m going to guess that American Football still is uniquely bad in the rates of such injuries? This paper suggests that:
I think there’s going to be some repeated trauma involved in lots of sports (e.g. skiers stress their knees a lot and have a lot of risk of fractures, lots of team sports involve risks of collisions with other players, deep divers often black out on resurfacing, boxing literally requires one to cause some kind of head trauma to the opponent as one condition to end the game, and so on so forth).
I would guess football, hockey, rugby, boxing, kick-boxing and MMA to be amongst the worst sports for this stuff. Wrestling too possibly though obviously in that case it’s more like the result of performances gone wrong.
″ football, hockey, rugby, boxing, kick-boxing and MMA to be amongst the worst sports for this stuff.” - - I’m not up to date on the current literature but I’m pretty sure this list is rather wrong. I don’t remember all the details of the study I do remember (and I don’t have time for a lit review) but in it women’s high school soccer actually had the highest concussion rate (idk if it was per participant season or hour or per game minute or...).
Fair, I wasn’t aware of this! Though I’m going to guess that American Football still is uniquely bad in the rates of such injuries? This paper suggests that:
https://doi.org/10.4088/PCC.20br02653
I think there’s going to be some repeated trauma involved in lots of sports (e.g. skiers stress their knees a lot and have a lot of risk of fractures, lots of team sports involve risks of collisions with other players, deep divers often black out on resurfacing, boxing literally requires one to cause some kind of head trauma to the opponent as one condition to end the game, and so on so forth).
I would guess football, hockey, rugby, boxing, kick-boxing and MMA to be amongst the worst sports for this stuff. Wrestling too possibly though obviously in that case it’s more like the result of performances gone wrong.
″ football, hockey, rugby, boxing, kick-boxing and MMA to be amongst the worst sports for this stuff.” - - I’m not up to date on the current literature but I’m pretty sure this list is rather wrong. I don’t remember all the details of the study I do remember (and I don’t have time for a lit review) but in it women’s high school soccer actually had the highest concussion rate (idk if it was per participant season or hour or per game minute or...).