The journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics has published a fascinating examination of the emergency room visits for concussions from 2001 to 2005 in 100 U.S. hospitals among children aged 8 to 19. The authors have been particularly interested in examining the role of sport in related concussion ER visits.
-502,784 Concussions between 8-19 years, 50% were related sports injuries.
-Among the children of pre-high school (8-13 y old), 58% of all the concussions were related sports.
-Among the children of secondary school (14 - old 19y), 46% of the concussions were sports related.
What sports sends the more children to the hospital for concussions?
Here's a chart showing the percent of all sports related concussions represented by each child for8-13 years of sports and activities:
As you can see above, for children age 8-13, cycling accounted for the highest percentage of sports related concussions (18%), football was a close second, represent approximately 10% of all brain injury related sports.
Now here is the same chart for older youth (aged 14 to 19):
Older adolescents, football is by far, concussions responsible more than any other activity or sport: football represented 40% of all sports related concussions. Basketball and soccer have represented more than 10% of the sports related concussions. However, cycling was slightly more than 5% of concussions among older children.
What is a parent to do?
Before you put your child on craigslist bike, there is something, you need to know about these data.Cycling might be considered "dangerous sports" for young children as the measure where he is responsible for the highest percentage of related brain injuries in sports.However, cycling is also extremely popular with millions of children riding bicycles each popularity année.Cette could explain why the cycling of accounts provided ER visites.Pour data presented today will help us understand the "likelihood of harm" when participating in each sport, I would consider to be a better definition of "dangerous".Let me give you an example with F ABRICATED DATA.Imagine that results cycling in brain injury 1 per 100,000 'bicycle user hours child' (for each 100,000 hours a child is riding a bike, a child has a brain injury).However, snowboarding can lead to brain injury 1 for every 1,000 hours of snowboard.Dans this scenario, the risk of suffering a brain injury is significantly higher when the snowboarding when the cyclisme.Plus precisely, you can claim that snowboarding is 100 times more dangerous than to cycling.However, because the cycling is significantly more popular (in terms of use) that the snowboarding, cycling would send more people to the hospital.(Again these past statements are based on a hypothetical case with data fabriquées.Je don't really know whether snowboarding is more dangerous than cycling.)
Therefore graphics presented above say us what sporting activities and send the most people to hospital, but not necessarily the sport/activity is the "most dangerous" in terms of the probability of injury to the participants.
It would be? I would probably minimize (but not prohibit) cycling in my children that they are 13 and I could implement a policy "no exception headphones on at" when they ride their my child vélos.Si decides it wants to play football, I would like to imposes a limit on concussion 1-2, because the risk of a catastrophic event (e.g., "second impact syndrome") significantly increases after you encounter a commotion.Voici site wonderful young sports concussion by the CDC.
Reference:
Bakhos, l. Lockhart, g., Myers, r., & Linakis, j. (2010) concussion in athletes PEDIATRICS, child emergency .visites 126 (3) DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-3101
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