How frequently do sports injuries occur?
More than 30 million children/teens are participants in organized sports of some kind in the U.S. Children under the age of 15 incur approximately 3.5 million injuries yearly. Sports-related injuries are to blame for over 1/3 of those injuries, with sprains and strains being the leader amongst them. Every sports carries with it the tremendous potential for injury, whether from the trauma of contact with other players or from overuse or misuse of a body part. Contact sports like as football and Hockey can be expected to result in a higher number of injuries than a non-contact sport such as swimming. Additional sport exposure occurs during unsupervised free play. With this volume of activity, injury exposure is significant.

The number of sports-related injuries involving children ages 5 through 14 years includes: