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Football and neck injury
May 4, 2005 11:10 PM EST | Football | Email to Friend
A study shows that football mostly likely cases neck injury.
Football, hockey and soccer are three of the most popular contact sports in North America but football beats the other two in causing neck injury in particular.
Researchers combined hospital emergency department data with sport participation figures from across the US during the 1990s, to determine the relative risk of neck injury for football, hockey and soccer. Overall, they discovered football players suffered significantly more neck injuries than those playing hockey or soccer.
[Read more via sciencedaily.com...]
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