What is the most common injury in sports?

Currently, many athletes across the world suffer from a common injury in not only one but almost every sport. This injury is one with serious side effects and can permanently end any athlete's career. Have you ever wondered what kind of injury could be bad enough to end an athlete's career? What it feels like or how it is even caused? Most athletes are not prepared for an injury like this, nor, are they ever expecting to get one but sometimes it just happens depending on how physical the sport being played may be or how well the athlete protects him/herself from injuries.

The most common injury in sports, are traumatic brain injuries or better known as T.B.I.’s. Concussions are a very common T.B.I. in athletes they’re also a huge concern to school trainers, doctors and coaches. A concussion is a common traumatic brain injury where the brain gets shook around too hard and causes the brain to hit the skull and ultimately get bruised. “Each year, U.S. emergency departments (EDs) treat an estimated 173,285 sports and recreation-related TBIs, including concussions, among children and adolescents, from birth to 19 years.” (CDC.GOV) there have been a great amount of reports of famous athletes that their career ended short due to multiple concussions.

There are many sports that are physical and contain a lot of athletes who have had concussions such as ice hockey where not only can it be dangerous when someone could easily get cut open by the sharp skates but are also shoving each other against walls, throwing each other to the ground and constantly fighting. Even though they wear helmets and some pads that doesn’t really protect against the physicality of the sport let alone from concussions.

Soccer not being as physically demanding ...

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...anted to be playing in the game helping my team out to try to get a win I really couldn’t do much but cheer my team on and hope for the best. If my team ended up losing I always felt responsible for it no matter what and personally if anything I hated that feeling more than anything in the world.

If you’re to ever feel dizzy, lose your consciousness, have slurred speech, get a headache immediately after, can’t concentrate or blackout after being bumped to hard in the head, then you should probably stop what you’re doing and go get checked out by a doctor for a possible concussion. Don’t worry too much though it’s probably nothing too severe just make sure you don’t do anything too physical that could cause another head injury take some time off doing anything that requires too much energy and relax, stay off your phone, your computer, and don’t watch too much TV.