A look at gender and rate of injuries in high school

At Ohio State, there has been an injury tracking system in place for a few years now that assembles information about the rates of high school injury in various contexts. In this article, it compares the rate of injury between genders. Of no surprise is that more boys are injured, but that is greatly influenced by football and wrestling. (Two sports with minimal participation by girls.) However, girls are getting injured at higher rates in basketball, soccer, and softball when compared to the boys' comparable sports. As of yet, there is minimal explanation as to why, only hypotheses.

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