Sports injuries

This table shows the number of injuries in sports. Ten sports are

mentioned that caused these injuries with Australian football is taking the majority and volleyball the minority.

The highest number of injuries took place while playing Australian

football at 10122 injuries and 83% of them were during competition or practice. While, soccer, which has the second highest number of

injuries, has less than half the number of Australian football’s injuries at 3777. The number of injuries of rugby, cricket, basketball and netball were nearly that, between 3600 and 3000 injuries. The lowest number of injuries took place while playing volleyball, squash and martial arts, between 882 and 776 injuries. Finally, hockey didn’t have neither high nor low number of injuries at 1219 injuries.

To conclude, there are high number of injuries which involved in sports. Most of them were during competition or practice and few of them were admitted to the hospital. Football is taking the top spot with more than 10000 injuries.