CHICAGO SPORTS INJURY ATTORNEY ADVISES CAUTION AS FOOTBALL SEASON BEGINS
I am a Chicagoland personal injury attorney who has successfully represented student athletes for injuries they received while involved in high school sports. I feel strongly about making safety a top priority in high school sports.
The online addition of the Los Angeles Times recently posted an article stating that injuries in high school football occur most frequently during the middle of games. The statistics cited by the L.A. Times comes from an analysis by the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital of data from the 2006 National High School Sports Injury Surveillance Study.
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that 54% of injuries occur during the middle of a game. Thirty percent of injuries occur at the end of the game, including overtime, and the beginning of the game accounted for 16% of injuries. The study found that injuries are most severe in the beginning and middle of the games during kickoff and punting.
