There are many different types of head injuries in sports, many sports with the risk of a are Cycling, Football, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Winter Sports, Hockey, and Lacrosse. Every year there are 3.8 million concussions in recreation, amateur and and professional sports. Many of the sports listed before are contact sports. Contact sports are any sports that emphasize physical contact between players in the sport. Unfortunately the risk with contact sports is that there can be blows to the head causing different types TBI's (Traumatic Brain Injury). Many contacts sports like hockey, lacrosse, football, boxing, etc, involve lots of rough contact between the players. Sometimes the players do get hit in the head which may cause a head injury.
Ricky Hatton suffers a concussion after a punch from
Floyd Mayweather
What are some sports that have a high risk of head injury but aren't contact sports? There are plenty, sports like ski racing, motorcross, cycling, and driving sports. There are still many head injuries that happen in these sports mainly because in a lot of them there is very fast paced action during the sport. In many of these sports it is possible to fall or crash while moving at a fast pace and to get injured.
A Ski racer crashes during the race.
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"Contact Sport." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 03 Feb. 2014. Web. 11 Mar. 2014.
"Traumatic Brain Injury." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 03 Aug. 2014. Web. 11 Mar. 2014.
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