High School Sports Injuries Are Dropping, Study Finds

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ATLANTA -- High school sports injury rates in the United States have dropped by more than half in the past decade, probably because of better equipment and other advances, researchers reported Thursday.

In all nine major sports examined except volleyball, injury rates were at least two times higher in the mid-1990s than they were during the 2005-06 school year, said Dawn Comstock, a researcher at Columbus Children's Hospital in Ohio and lead author of the study.

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High School Sports Injuries Are Dropping, Study Finds

"Too often it's believed sports injuries are unavoidable. We know that's not true," she said.

The study was released by the Centers for Disea...

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