Boys soccer and cheer leading are the same because boys who play soccer are wimps and think they have a concussion but they really don't. Than there is girls cheer leading where they actually get concussions.
you'reretardedkthanks
12 years ago
Actually, if you look *real* close, they’re not Identical.
How is cheerleading a 'sport'? Surely it's just a sideshow for other sports to fill some of the ad breaks in
Tory hotaling
12 years ago
They are talking about competitive cheerleading not NFL style. Competitive cheerleading has some of the highest injury numbers of any sport. The littles get thrown in the air 20-30 feet. Serious injuries happen all the time.
We are an ice hockey family as well. My son is now 19 and had a number of mild concussions throughout his youth hockey years. The key to reducing the likelihood of receiving a concussion centers around wearing a mouth guard that is thick enough to prevent the jaw from slamming against the skull during an impact. Concussions do not have to involve direct head trauma, with whiplash often being the cause. This is due to the hinge of the jaw bone compressing violently at the point of where it connects to the skull. A decent mouth guard will prevent that from happening.
Glenn
12 years ago
A mouthguard will not prevent the brain bashing into the skull wall as your head hits the boards, the ice, or another player. Yes a mouthguard will help, and may in some cases prevent concussions but the NHL didn’t address the concussion issue by mandate players to wear mouthguards they outlawed hits to the head.
+William Basart – please tell me you were being sarcastic.
I'm disappointed that boys lacrosse has such a high rate of concussions. My son is just getting into the sport and loves it, and I was thinking it was safer than football… : Perhaps it still is for overall injuries, but concussions are not something to play around with…
I am surprised that cheerleading is so far down on the list. It seems that it would be a very injury prone sport with all the lifts and tumbling…?
Tory Hotaling
12 years ago
Those numbers are being driven by Box Lacrosse or you may know it as indoor. Outdoor Lax doesn’t have the same high numbers. It is much safer than football. Hitting is not encouraged in Lax like it is in football. Watch a college Lax game it’s all about stick skills and passing. Yes there is hitting but nothing like there is in indoor. Your son should be just fine and he will love it!
Men playing soccer don't get as many concussions because, as several of my ex-girlfriends have stated, we are thick headed bad asses. That being said, I have broken a ton of bones playing over the years, including my leg must recently!
+David Bucci – probably concussions aren't as common in gymnastics (although lots of other injuries like sprains, bone breaks, etc. are) since it's not a "contact" sport. (My daughter is a gymnast… she has never had a concussion nor any of her teammates, but several have had sprains and breaks).
I've known High School football players that got repeated concussions. You know that is serious when you know how much brain bleeding is required for the symptoms. It is suggested that the head protection actually allows players to hit more violently, in worse ways, so eventually the damage happens despite the cushions.
Is rugby not on there because its not a high school sport? When I played we would have someone, whether my team or the other team, receive a concussion almost every game. Most of them were minor and only had to miss a game or so but, some were pretty serious.
Definitely a high school sport around here – about the biggest one. Back when I was in school there was a rugby-related injury serious enough to require hospital treatment almost every week.
Cheerleading became a sport when competitions became more athletic. There are a lot more lifts and aerial stunts now. Besides strains and breaks, concussions happen when someone is dropped or falls and hits their head.
I assume rugby isn't on the list because its a US list. Otherwise, I think rugby would be near the top. <update> Checking http://goo.gl/LVSyC suggests I'm probably wrong.
I assume rugby isn't on the list because its a US list. Otherwise, I think rugby would be near the top. <update> Checking http://goo.gl/LVSyC suggests I'm probably wrong.
No such thing as 'soccer'. There is a game though where you primarily use your feet to control a ball and it's illegal to use your hands – it's called football.
No such thing as 'soccer'. There is a game though where you primarily use your feet to control a ball and it's illegal to use your hands – it's called football.
+Mark Dierauf, in fact, a year or two ago USA Gymnastics (the organizing body in the US for Olympics and Junior Olympics gymnastics) adopted cheerleading as a competitive form of gymnastics (they call it "Group") … https://usagym.org/pages/group/pages/index.html … though the decision was not without its controversy.
+Guy Kawasaki Is it Ice Hockey that your boys play? I love watching that sport – but head and mouth injuries do seem common.
Also – not requiring protective head gear for girl's lacrosse is ludicrous. Anyone who thinks girls don't play rough should check out professional roller derby – ha ha.
+Eric Cha, yeah, concussions aren't really an issue until the senior levels (not sure what level your daughter and her teammates are at), at junior levels they don't allow the riskier skills that tend to lead to concussions. In fact, it's mostly an issue in Men's, because for women they've forbidden the most dangerous skill group (rollout skills on floor, one of the skills Kurt Thomas was famous for). They banned them after a series of high-profile accidents, including when the 1978 world champion, Elena Mukhina, was paralyzed after a poorly executed rollout in 1980 (and later died from complications related to the injury).
There's a fair amount of controversy about it, with a lot of people wanting to ban that particular skill group for men as well. High bar in Men's also is a source of concussions, when the older boys start doing a lot of release skills (and to a lesser extent girls on uneven bars, though the releases aren't as daredevil, because of the nature of the event).
Video of a friend of ours getting a concussion at Maryland state championships in 2009: http://youtu.be/cT35bc8c8wA – he kept competing, but afterwards was totally out of it.
Video of a women's gymnast who under-rotated a rollout skill – before they were banned. http://youtu.be/sXP1vGBmSR4 – this is labeled as "funny", but if you're a gymnastics parent, it ain't so funny (well, maybe a little)
I've been playing basketball for about 10 years now. I've suffered three concussions and I know that with one more I cannot ever play again. I'm glad more studying about concussions are be done. I'm 17 and I'm having migraines because of the concussions I got over 4 years ago
This study, (http://bit.ly/123szd2) published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, ranks the top 3 of the majority of concussion injuries as being from Football, Girls soccer, and Boy's wrestling. The sports listed above are the ones where concussions represent a greater proportion of total injuries sustained.
In gender-comparable sports, girls had a higher concussion rate (1.7) than boys (1.0). Would that have to do with bone density I wonder?
+Tamra Bryan I think girls are less careful when playing soccer than boys are. I've seen a lot of girls doing risky tackles or jumps… I don't know why. Perhaps +Shawn Dunne is right, they are more competitive.
About brain damage related to heading the ball, the study say that frequent headers (more than 1500 heading during a season) have a risk to score worse in memory and cognitive test – from 10% to 20% worse than others player of soccer. So it is a risk only for certain players, that mind this: they don't suffer concussions when heading a ball.
So heading a ball voluntarily isn't di per se dangerous – unless you are crazy and try to stop shots on goal with your head. When a player is distracted and gets hit by the ball on his head, it is a different story; because of that I have seen player fainting, reporting various injuries – I suffered a retinal edema after the match was over, I wasn't expecting to receive the ball anymore.
The development to watch here is how body checking is being removed from certain levels of youth hockey. Hockey Canada just took a major step in that direction, marking a real sea change there.
+Guy Kawasaki – I thought I had my bell rung playing college football until I really got my bell rung playing professional rugby. Concussions in sports are a serious concern that will be a challenge to address.
This just shows reported cases, its well known hockey is just in recent years actually recognizing and treating concussions, once football becomes as proactive no doubt it will take the lead
Any sports activity can be dangerous – even with proper protection. Over the top competitiveness probably does increase the risk.
When I took racquetball classes in college, I had one opponent that liked to use the quick red fireballs. He almost brained me with his racket multiple times because the competition was so fierce and fast.Then one morning our coach came in and started talking about protective headgear. We already wore goggles, so we wondered why he had brought it up. Turns out he had been hit in the ear the night before and it busted his eardrum.
+Leon Chevalier "Gather round children, history lesson time!" Soccer is an abreviation of association and was also known as british football.Rugby(league & union),gridiron (usa &canadian),gaelic,australian rules,association (soccer/british),touch etc are called football because they are played on foot as against polo for instance which is played on horse back or rounders (father of baseball) or softball or cricket which you played standing at base/plate/crease etc etc.How many concussions occur playing within the rules and how many occur when players play outside the rules?
Interesting stats.
Boys soccer and cheer leading are the same because boys who play soccer are wimps and think they have a concussion but they really don't. Than there is girls cheer leading where they actually get concussions.
Actually, if you look *real* close, they’re not Identical.
Not required by who? I'm certain if my daughter played, she'd be required. #parentingadvice
Oh joy, and I just took up lacrosse.
Where is football in this list? Or rugby?
Its cause girls are sloppy/uncoordinated players that run around, unaware of their surroundings, with their heads flopping around.
No girls play like animals.And yes I have watched many wonens matches.
+Kevin Millman 3rd one from the top
Yikes. Who new lacrosse was so dangerous.
Hey, +William Basart, come a little closer and say that.
How is cheerleading a 'sport'? Surely it's just a sideshow for other sports to fill some of the ad breaks in
They are talking about competitive cheerleading not NFL style. Competitive cheerleading has some of the highest injury numbers of any sport. The littles get thrown in the air 20-30 feet. Serious injuries happen all the time.
Ouch!
We are an ice hockey family as well. My son is now 19 and had a number of mild concussions throughout his youth hockey years. The key to reducing the likelihood of receiving a concussion centers around wearing a mouth guard that is thick enough to prevent the jaw from slamming against the skull during an impact. Concussions do not have to involve direct head trauma, with whiplash often being the cause. This is due to the hinge of the jaw bone compressing violently at the point of where it connects to the skull. A decent mouth guard will prevent that from happening.
A mouthguard will not prevent the brain bashing into the skull wall as your head hits the boards, the ice, or another player. Yes a mouthguard will help, and may in some cases prevent concussions but the NHL didn’t address the concussion issue by mandate players to wear mouthguards they outlawed hits to the head.
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+William Basart – please tell me you were being sarcastic.
I'm disappointed that boys lacrosse has such a high rate of concussions. My son is just getting into the sport and loves it, and I was thinking it was safer than football… : Perhaps it still is for overall injuries, but concussions are not something to play around with…
I am surprised that cheerleading is so far down on the list. It seems that it would be a very injury prone sport with all the lifts and tumbling…?
Those numbers are being driven by Box Lacrosse or you may know it as indoor. Outdoor Lax doesn’t have the same high numbers. It is much safer than football. Hitting is not encouraged in Lax like it is in football. Watch a college Lax game it’s all about stick skills and passing. Yes there is hitting but nothing like there is in indoor. Your son should be just fine and he will love it!
Men playing soccer don't get as many concussions because, as several of my ex-girlfriends have stated, we are thick headed bad asses. That being said, I have broken a ton of bones playing over the years, including my leg must recently!
Girls lacrosse?
Has there ever been a reported case in golf?
Surprised gymnastics isn't there. Maybe it's not a big enough participant pool.
Wait…cheerleading is a sport?
+David Bucci – probably concussions aren't as common in gymnastics (although lots of other injuries like sprains, bone breaks, etc. are) since it's not a "contact" sport. (My daughter is a gymnast… she has never had a concussion nor any of her teammates, but several have had sprains and breaks).
+Eric Mantion you also forgot soccer requires finesse. We don't go around trying to break people's heads with our own.
The picture isn't showing on my phone… But I will guess Rugby
High school sports
I've known High School football players that got repeated concussions. You know that is serious when you know how much brain bleeding is required for the symptoms. It is suggested that the head protection actually allows players to hit more violently, in worse ways, so eventually the damage happens despite the cushions.
What, no horse riding??!?
Oh. "high school" sports.
Is rugby not on there because its not a high school sport? When I played we would have someone, whether my team or the other team, receive a concussion almost every game. Most of them were minor and only had to miss a game or so but, some were pretty serious.
Definitely a high school sport around here – about the biggest one. Back when I was in school there was a rugby-related injury serious enough to require hospital treatment almost every week.
Cheerleading became a sport when competitions became more athletic. There are a lot more lifts and aerial stunts now. Besides strains and breaks, concussions happen when someone is dropped or falls and hits their head.
http://varsity.com/event/1725/
Sooo… Boys basketball is the way to go.
Sooo… Boys basketball is the way to go.
Also, there's news from a recent study on damaging brain changes linked to heading soccer balls. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_137700.html
Also, there's news from a recent study on damaging brain changes linked to heading soccer balls. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_137700.html
One of my guesses is rugby.
The other is wrestling.
One of my guesses is rugby.
The other is wrestling.
Is this only field lacrosse? I've certainly never seen box lacrosse played without helmets.
Is this only field lacrosse? I've certainly never seen box lacrosse played without helmets.
add me as a friend..thank you
add me as a friend..thank you
My guess would usually go to the one that is highlighted, but I don't think your sons play girls lacrosse.
My guess would usually go to the one that is highlighted, but I don't think your sons play girls lacrosse.
I assume rugby isn't on the list because its a US list. Otherwise, I think rugby would be near the top.
<update> Checking http://goo.gl/LVSyC suggests I'm probably wrong.
I assume rugby isn't on the list because its a US list. Otherwise, I think rugby would be near the top.
<update> Checking http://goo.gl/LVSyC suggests I'm probably wrong.
No such thing as 'soccer'. There is a game though where you primarily use your feet to control a ball and it's illegal to use your hands – it's called football.
No such thing as 'soccer'. There is a game though where you primarily use your feet to control a ball and it's illegal to use your hands – it's called football.
+Leon Chevalier
Shut up man. No one cares about that argument anymore.
Its pointless. Soccer/football good.
+Leon Chevalier
Shut up man. No one cares about that argument anymore.
Its pointless. Soccer/football good.
+Mark Dierauf, in fact, a year or two ago USA Gymnastics (the organizing body in the US for Olympics and Junior Olympics gymnastics) adopted cheerleading as a competitive form of gymnastics (they call it "Group") … https://usagym.org/pages/group/pages/index.html … though the decision was not without its controversy.
+Guy Kawasaki Is it Ice Hockey that your boys play? I love watching that sport – but head and mouth injuries do seem common.
Also – not requiring protective head gear for girl's lacrosse is ludicrous. Anyone who thinks girls don't play rough should check out professional roller derby – ha ha.
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Ah, no Rugby Union in the US….
What about boxing, martial arts, etc.?
+Eric Cha, yeah, concussions aren't really an issue until the senior levels (not sure what level your daughter and her teammates are at), at junior levels they don't allow the riskier skills that tend to lead to concussions. In fact, it's mostly an issue in Men's, because for women they've forbidden the most dangerous skill group (rollout skills on floor, one of the skills Kurt Thomas was famous for). They banned them after a series of high-profile accidents, including when the 1978 world champion, Elena Mukhina, was paralyzed after a poorly executed rollout in 1980 (and later died from complications related to the injury).
There's a fair amount of controversy about it, with a lot of people wanting to ban that particular skill group for men as well. High bar in Men's also is a source of concussions, when the older boys start doing a lot of release skills (and to a lesser extent girls on uneven bars, though the releases aren't as daredevil, because of the nature of the event).
Video of a friend of ours getting a concussion at Maryland state championships in 2009: http://youtu.be/cT35bc8c8wA – he kept competing, but afterwards was totally out of it.
Video of a women's gymnast who under-rotated a rollout skill – before they were banned. http://youtu.be/sXP1vGBmSR4 – this is labeled as "funny", but if you're a gymnastics parent, it ain't so funny (well, maybe a little)
Article about the movement to ban rollout skills on men's floor routine, after a particularly bad incident with a Japanese national team gymnast: http://www.examiner.com/article/ban-them-the-case-for-getting-rid-of-roll-out-skills-on-floor
I've played hockey and lacrosse my whole life, been lucky enough to never get a concussion (or at least one bad enough that I noticed).
Cheerleading. Its ok, we wont openly judge you, just know your boyrls are safe
I've been playing basketball for about 10 years now. I've suffered three concussions and I know that with one more I cannot ever play again. I'm glad more studying about concussions are be done. I'm 17 and I'm having migraines because of the concussions I got over 4 years ago
Then how come Boys Lacrosse is so high when they actually wear helmets???
Well they don't always wear them. +Karlos Ortiz http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/19124033/boy-injured-in-lacrosse-accident-makes-m?clienttype=printable
This study, (http://bit.ly/123szd2) published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, ranks the top 3 of the majority of concussion injuries as being from Football, Girls soccer, and Boy's wrestling. The sports listed above are the ones where concussions represent a greater proportion of total injuries sustained.
In gender-comparable sports, girls had a higher concussion rate (1.7) than boys (1.0). Would that have to do with bone density I wonder?
+Leon Chevalier shut up there is too! ;). Just kidding.
+Leon Chevalier shut up there is too! ;). Just kidding.
Girls are actually more competitive than boys
Girls are actually more competitive than boys
How is cheerleading a sport ?
How is cheerleading a sport ?
cheerleading is an activity
+Tamra Bryan I think girls are less careful when playing soccer than boys are. I've seen a lot of girls doing risky tackles or jumps… I don't know why. Perhaps +Shawn Dunne is right, they are more competitive.
About brain damage related to heading the ball, the study say that frequent headers (more than 1500 heading during a season) have a risk to score worse in memory and cognitive test – from 10% to 20% worse than others player of soccer.
So it is a risk only for certain players, that mind this: they don't suffer concussions when heading a ball.
So heading a ball voluntarily isn't di per se dangerous – unless you are crazy and try to stop shots on goal with your head. When a player is distracted and gets hit by the ball on his head, it is a different story; because of that I have seen player fainting, reporting various injuries – I suffered a retinal edema after the match was over, I wasn't expecting to receive the ball anymore.
Still, some players nearly died after a concussion caused by hitting a knee or another head (Cech and Chivu):
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/videos/13674/video-nasty-inter-defender-cristian-chivu-fractures-skull-similar-injury-to-petr-cech.html
Chivu now wears helmet:
http://itsthefootballthatsthefootball.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/chivu.jpg
The development to watch here is how body checking is being removed from certain levels of youth hockey. Hockey Canada just took a major step in that direction, marking a real sea change there.
Ice hockey! Had 1 concussion in 10 years of playing
http://www.mayhanviet.com/May-han-TIG-cc5.html
Boxing??
Play chess, snooker, etc. Much safer.
+Guy Kawasaki – I thought I had my bell rung playing college football until I really got my bell rung playing professional rugby. Concussions in sports are a serious concern that will be a challenge to address.
wow cheerleading looks dangerous
Where's baseball in the rankings?
Where's baseball in the rankings?
I bet Girls Headbutting has a higher concussion rate. Isn't that a high school sport yet?
I bet Girls Headbutting has a higher concussion rate. Isn't that a high school sport yet?
Proof positive from me. My son was the Captain of his high school hockey and LAX teams. Saw this far too often.
This just shows reported cases, its well known hockey is just in recent years actually recognizing and treating concussions, once football becomes as proactive no doubt it will take the lead
I didn't say playing with dolls so badminton?
+Jennifer Meier how does playing soccer make the boys wimps?
Any sports activity can be dangerous – even with proper protection. Over the top competitiveness probably does increase the risk.
When I took racquetball classes in college, I had one opponent that liked to use the quick red fireballs. He almost brained me with his racket multiple times because the competition was so fierce and fast.Then one morning our coach came in and started talking about protective headgear. We already wore goggles, so we wondered why he had brought it up. Turns out he had been hit in the ear the night before and it busted his eardrum.
+Leon Chevalier
"Gather round children, history lesson time!"
Soccer is an abreviation of association and was also known as british football.Rugby(league & union),gridiron (usa &canadian),gaelic,australian rules,association (soccer/british),touch etc are called football because they are played on foot as against polo for instance which is played on horse back or rounders (father of baseball) or softball or cricket which you played standing at base/plate/crease etc etc.How many concussions occur playing within the rules and how many occur when players play outside the rules?
+Eric Cha +Laurel Lawson Yes, I was being sarcastic in my earlier post.
boys football doesnt make the list?