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According to the latest medical research knee is the most common body part that get injured among high school athletes.
Based on the research made by the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) of The
Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital it was discovered that ankle accounted for 12 percent followed by shoulder at 11 percent.
The researchers also found out that the most severe and common injury diagnoses were fractures (36 percent), complete ligament sprains (15 percent) and incomplete ligament sprains (14 percent). Commonly fractured body sites included the hand and finger (18 percent), ankle (14 percent) and wrist (11 percent).
The research team also discovered that high school football and wrestling athletes experienced the highest rate of severe injuries that caused high school athletes to miss more than 21 days of sport participation among a nationally representative sample of high school athletes.
It is said that severe injuries accounted for 15 percent of all high school sport-related injuries.
Study co-author Dawn Comstock, PhD, CIRP principal investigator at Nationwide Children’s and a faculty member of The Ohio State University College of Medicine revealed severe injuries negatively affect athletes’ health and often place an increased burden on the health care system.
 

Knee injury is common among high school student athletes.

Comstock added future research is needed to develop effective interventions to decrease the incidence and severity of high school sports injuries.
Among the sports studied in the study were football, boys’ and girls’ soccer, volleyball, boys’ and girls’ basketball, wrestling, and baseball and softball.
The data taken from the study were collected from the 2005-2007 National High School Sports Injury Surveillance Study, which was funded in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital works globally to reduce injury-related pediatric death and disabilities. With innovative research at its core, CIRP works to continually improve the scientific understanding of the epidemiology, bio-mechanics, prevention, acute treatment and rehabilitation of injuries.