While many adults engage in sports, even more children participate in sports (Blendon et al., 2015). A 2020 report suggests that over 50% of children between 6-17 have participated in sports within the last year (Black et al., 2022), which is an increase from under...
With over 3.5 million sport injuries estimated to occur each year (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2023), we spent the last several weeks digging into and describing injury patterns related to specific sports: basketball, soccer, baseball/softball, and football. Although...
The National Institute of Health estimates that more than six million Americans over the age of 65 suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, with many more under the age of 65 also having the disease (National Institute on Aging, 2021). It is currently ranked as the seventh...
Parkinson’s Disease (PD), a neurological disorder that affects movement and coordination, impacts roughly 1 million Americans with another 90,000 being diagnosed each year. According to the Parkinson’s Foundation, there is a new diagnosis every 6 minutes in the US....
After we looked into cardiac arrests in sport injuries following Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest on Monday Night Football and other sport-related injuries, our team started exploring other football-related injuries. The CDC reports that over 20% of all emergency...
We recently released insights exploring basketball- and soccer-related sports injuries, which inspired us to look into other sports. With over 15 million baseball players in the US and nearly 70 million people who attended a Major League Baseball (MLB) game in 2019,...
