More High School Kids Suffer Concussions Today Than Decade Ago

An 11-year retrospective study - involving almost 160,000 high school student-athletes - shows a more than four-fold increase in concussion rates in boys' and girls' sports at 25 high schools in suburban Washington, D.C. Overseen by Andrew Lincoln, director of the Sports Medicine Research Center at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, the study suggests that concussions are an increasing problem at the high school level, and that girls are at least as susceptible as boys in sports played by both genders (soccer, basketball and baseball/softball).

During the period between the academic years 1997-98 and 2007-08, 2,651 concussions were electronically recorded on a daily basis by certified athletic trainers who were on-site for games and practices. The rate of annual increase during this period was 15.5 percent. Boys' football accounted for more than half of all concussions and saw the highest incidence rate (.60 per 1,000 athlete exposures). Among girls' sports, soccer had the most concussions, as well as the second-highest overall incidence rate of the 12 sports representing either gender (.35 per 1,000 athlete exposures).

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