Concussions may be on rise in high schoolers: study

Concussions may be on rise in high schoolers: study

NEW YORK Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:27pm EST
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - High school athletes are four times more likely to suffer a concussion today than they were about a decade ago, with football players leading the pack, according to a study.

What was more, concussions appeared to be an issue not only in sports long thought of as high impact, but also those thought of as low impact, with some high school athletes suffering from two or more concussions.

In 25 public schools from 1997 to 2008, and six different sports each for girls and boys, there were about five concussions for every 10,000 times high school athletes were on the field, the research -- published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine -- found.

That's up from slightly over one per 10,000 times on the field in 1997.

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