Concussions

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  • Number of emergency department visits due to concussions among children 8 to 19 years during 2001-2005: 502,000
    • 65% were in the 14-19 age group, 35% in the 8-13 age group
    • Approximately half of the ED visits for concussions were sports related
    • 95,000 of the visits were related to football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or ice hockey
  • During the period from 2001-2005, approximate 4 in 1000 children age 8 to 13 and 6 in 1000 children age 14-19 visited the ED for a sport-related concussion

[edit] Source

Science Blog, Concussions in young athletes on the rise, 8/30/2010, which cites an article in the September 2010 issue of the journal Pediatrics

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