Sports injuries News

FRIDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- To avoid serious winter sports injuries, skiers, snowboarders, sledders and skaters should take simple safety precautions, orthopedic experts say. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported that in 201...

THURSDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- On Aug. 22, 2008, sophomore Matt Gfeller, 15, played in his first varsity high school football game at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, N.C. "We were all there," Lisa Gfeller, his mother, recalled. ...

TUESDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Youth sports injuries have become rampant in the United States, with emergency departments treating more than 8,000 children a day for sports-related injuries, safety experts reported Tuesday. As more children p...

SUNDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Fractures are the fourth most common type of injury suffered by high school athletes in the United States and can be serious and costly, a new study has found. Ligament sprains, muscle sprains and bruising occur ...

FRIDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly half of all sports injuries suffered by middle and high school-aged children are due to overuse -- and many of those injuries could have been prevented. That's the message from the just-launched Stop Spor...

WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- Orthopedic surgeons warn that sports injuries in children are rising dramatically, creating a "silent epidemic." But they add that awareness and early treatment can keep young athletes from developing seriou...

SUNDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) -- Spring beckons us outside for fun and exercise and that tends to lead to more calls to doctors about foot injuries, according to the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA). "With warm weather approaching...