A new study out of the University of Wisconsin revealed that high school athletes who specialize in a single sport are more likely to suffer lower-extremity injuries than athletes who played multiple sports. For their study, researchers tracked more than 1,500 student athletes across 29 high schools in Wisconsin during the 2015-16 athletic year. To […]
Ankle Sprains Most Common Injury During High School Sports
Medical data suggests that ankle sprains are the most common single injury in high school sports, accounting for roughly one in six of all high school sports-related injuries. The data was collected through the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System, which revealed that sprained ankles accounted for 16 percent of all sports-related injuries across […]
