There has been growing concern about the risks of sports-relatedconcussions and other injuries as lawsuits filed by professionalfootball players have generated national headlines.
|Last week, a federal appeals court approved the NationalFootball League's $765 million concussion settlement.
|According to Bloomberg News, the ruling sets in motion theresolution of thousands of lawsuits covering more than 20,000retired players. About 1% of players opted out of the settlement,which is to compensate players for head injuries over the next 65years.
|The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Preventionreported in 2009 that an estimated 248,418 children age 19 oryounger were treated in emergency rooms for sports andrecreation-related injuries that included a diagnosis of concussionor traumatic brain injury.
|More than head trauma
But sports-related injuries are about more than head trauma.
|According to the Itasca, Ill.-based National Safety Council,533,509 people suffered injuries while playing basketball, while521,578 bicycle riders and 420,581 football players were injured,in 2013, based on injuries treated at hospital emergency rooms, forexample.
|Above are the top 20 sports that cause the most injuries, basedon emergency room visits in the United States, along withpercentage of injuries by age group for each sport.
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