Pete McMurray Show

Experts are saying "If you want to exercise, go ahead. The dangers of suffering injuries while exercising and playing sports is overblown"

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Experts are saying "If you want to exercise, go ahead.  The dangers of suffering injuries while exercising and playing sports is overblown"

Researchers utilized data from hospitals nationwide where individuals presented with major trauma injuries related to sports and exercise between 2012 and 2017. They discovered a total of 11,702 trauma injuries arising from these activities during the study period.

-Football had the highest injury rate but still relatively low at 6.56 injuries per 100,000 participants per year.
Motorsports, equestrian activities, and gliding -paragliding and hang gliding were the 3 worst

-The majority of sports injuries involve the lower body, - the most common 

#1 - the knee - strain, meniscus, swelling of the knee, the knee cap
#2 - Shoulder
#3 - Tennis elbow or golf elbow