Youth Sports - THE GAMES THEY PLAY AND THE INJURIES THEY GET To ensure greater participation and safety in sport, the NSW Youth Sports Injury Report was launched recently. The survey was conducted by the Northern Beaches Health Promotion Service and included over 15,500 responses from young people across NSW. It is the largest of its kind in Australia. The aim of the study was to promote participation in sport by getting a broad picture of the current situation so that parents, young people and sports organisers could work together to make sport safer. The report has information about participation in each of 37 different sports. It provides information about what proportion of participants in each sport get an injury, what type of injuries they get and to what parts of the body. It also includes information about how severe the injury is likely to be - if it required first aid, time off school or sport, or a visit to the doctor or hospital. The most popular
sports were:
The sports in which participants were most likely to get injured were:
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The Sports with the highest proportions of serious injuries were:
For a copy of the report of information about youth sports injury prevention ideas contact Alex Donaldson at Manly Health Promotion Unit (02) 9976 9531 Alex Donaldson, Youth Sports Injury Prevention Advocate Summer 1997 IEA
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