ANTH
Research Paper
11/1/10
Sports Injuries in Children Children are easily hurt in sports even as teenagers. Their bodies are not ready for this contact sometimes. Some of these kids also don’t know the sport yet and that can cause an injury. Some kids are forced to play by their parents and they don’t even want to play. The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System estimated the injury rate per one hundred thousand kids to be four hundred fifty four for football, three hundred fifty nine for baseball, two hundred eighty for basketball, one hundred eight for soccer, one hundred two for wrestling, one hundred one for gymnastics and nine hundred seven for bicycling. This is interesting because I didn’t think cycling caused