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Last Updated 9/6/07
INFORMATION FOR PARENTS
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Many parents are being asked for the first time by their children to play youth football. Some parents may ve asking themselves "will they get hurt"? This article breifly discusses the incidence of injuries in youth football and presents links for current research on this topic.
There is a low incidence of injuries in youth football and majority of those injuries are minor. Older players appear to have a greater risk.1. This is believed to be due to the children getting bigger, stronger and faster as they get older. These results were presented in a study by the Mayo Clinic in April 2000. A easy read summry of the study is available on the Mayo Clinic website entitled Injuries Uncommon in Youth Football, Mayo Clinic Study Reports.
The injury rate for youth football is comparable with basketball, baseball, and soccer. In a study at the University of Pittsburg, the authors noted that the speculation that football as a collision sport would have a higher injury rate than the other sports was not supported by the data collected in their study. 4
Parent's conceern for considering theird chiildrens participation in organized sports are discussed in an article Youth Sports on the American Orthopedic Society For Sports Medicine (AOSSM) website. The AOSSM perpared this information to help provide paarents with some answers. It also discusses some of the benfits of participation.