{"id":113510,"date":"2016-09-12T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/why-youth-soccer-injuries-including-concussions-are-soaring\/"},"modified":"2016-09-12T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T13:46:42","slug":"why-youth-soccer-injuries-including-concussions-are-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/why-youth-soccer-injuries-including-concussions-are-soaring\/","title":{"rendered":"Why youth soccer injuries \u2013 including concussions \u2013 are soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"loc\">CHICAGO &#8212;<\/span> Soccer injuries are sending soaring<br \/>\nnumbers of U.S. kids to emergency rooms, a trend driven in part by young<br \/>\nplayers with concussions seeking urgent medical care, a study has found.<\/p>\n<p>The findings,<br \/>\nbased on 25 years of data, partly reflect soccer\u2019s growing popularity. But the researchers and sports<br \/>\nmedicine experts believe the trend also is a result of greater awareness about<br \/>\nconcussions and their potential risks. Coaches and parents are likely seeking<br \/>\nemergency treatment for symptoms that in previous years might have been<br \/>\ndownplayed or overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 3 million<br \/>\nplayers aged 7 through 17 received ER treatment for soccer-related injuries in the 2000-2014 study. The overall rate<br \/>\nof injuries, which takes into account soccer\u2019s<br \/>\nrising popularity, more than doubled to 220 per 10,000 players in 2013, from<br \/>\n106 per 10,000 players in 1990. Researchers did not have enough data to<br \/>\ncalculate 2014 rates.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200,000<br \/>\nconcussions or head injuries were treated in emergency rooms, or 7 percent of<br \/>\ninjuries. The rate jumped to almost 30 per 10,000 people in 2013 from just<br \/>\nunder 2 per 10,000 players in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>That trend<br \/>\nunderscores a need for better safety education and injury prevention in youth soccer, said Dr. Huiyun Xiang, the<br \/>\nlead author and a researcher at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at<br \/>\nNationwide Children\u2019s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcussions<br \/>\ncan have significant consequences in terms of cognitive function and brain<br \/>\ndevelopment,\u201d Xiang said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"link\">Playing sports with concussion doubles recovery time, study finds<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His study is an<br \/>\nanalysis of data from a national injury surveillance system and was published<br \/>\nMonday in Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>According to U.S.<br \/>\nYouth Soccer, there were more<br \/>\nthan 3 million registered soccer<br \/>\nplayers younger than 19 in 2014, almost twice as many as in 1990.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gallery overlay-video\"><span class=\"img \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2016\/01\/05\/3c24b420-a3fe-4c1e-a004-16f13f741900\/thumbnail\/220x140\/963588e0e3772c194650312016bdc709\/0105healthconcussions1480686640x360.jpg\" alt=\"New plan to help head off concussions in sports\" height=\"140\" width=\"220\" class=\" lazyload\" \/><\/span><figcaption>\n                <span class=\"topic\">Health<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title\">New plan to help head off concussions in sports<\/h3>\n<p class=\"dek\">\n                                            Washington D.C. schools will be using a new web-based system to track head injuries in youth sports and try to reduce the long-term health conseq&#8230;\n                                    <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rate of<br \/>\ninjuries from playing soccer has<br \/>\nranked second behind football in other studies on youth sports, including an<br \/>\nanalysis of 2015-2016 data from Reporting Information Online, an internet-based<br \/>\ninjury surveillance system for high school sports.<\/p>\n<p>For boys,<br \/>\nfootball-related concussions result in more ER visits than other sports,<br \/>\naccording to previous research. For girls, it\u2019s soccer, according to an analysis of 2001-2012 data by the federal<br \/>\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. The current study lacks information<br \/>\non gender-specific soccer injury<br \/>\nrates.<\/p>\n<p>Sprains and<br \/>\nfractures were the most common injuries; most players were not hospitalized.<br \/>\nFalling and getting hit by another player or the ball were among leading causes<br \/>\nof injury but there\u2019s no data in the study on whether many injuries were from<br \/>\nheading the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Concern about<br \/>\nkids\u2019 injuries from heading led to the U.S. Soccer Federation\u2019s recent restrictions including a ban for kids<br \/>\naged 10 and younger and limits on heading for those aged 11-13.<\/p>\n<p>Many concussions<br \/>\nin soccer occur when heads<br \/>\ncollide as two players jump up to head the ball, said Dr. Cynthia LaBella, a<br \/>\nsport medicine specialist at Chicago\u2019s Ann  Robert H. Lurie Children\u2019s<br \/>\nHospital. She said learning proper technique including tensing neck muscles can<br \/>\nhelp kids avoid injury while heading the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Labella noted that<br \/>\nsoccer has become so popular<br \/>\nthat it attracts kids with a wide range of athletic ability, and that many<br \/>\ninjuries she treats are in kids who lack adequate strength and conditioning for<br \/>\ntheir soccer level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s<br \/>\nso eager to join the soccer<br \/>\nteam. They\u2019re signing up because they want to be with their buddies,\u201d she<br \/>\nsaid. \u201cThe range of athleticism especially at the youth and preteen level<br \/>\nis pretty broad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Soccer injuries are sending soaring numbers of U.S. kids to emergency rooms, a trend driven in part by young players with concussions seeking urgent medical care, a study has found. The findings, based on 25 years of data, partly reflect soccer\u2019s growing popularity. But the researchers and sports medicine experts believe the trend <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/why-youth-soccer-injuries-including-concussions-are-soaring\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}