There were roughly 76 million baby boomers in the states in 2000. Here is the breakdown of hospital visits for the 16 most popular sports.
\n"; echo "| Estimated Number of Injuries | \n"; echo "Sport and Type of Injury | \n"; echo "|
|---|---|---|
| # Reported | \n"; echo "% of Pop. | \n"; echo "|
| 529,837 | \n"; echo "0.697% | \n"; echo "Basketball - Cut hands, sprained ankles, broken legs, eye and forehead injuries. | \n"; echo "
| 490,434 | \n"; echo "0.645% | \n"; echo "Bicycling - Feet caught in spokes, head injuries from falls, slipping while carrying bicycles, collisions with cars. | \n"; echo "
| 460,210 | \n"; echo "0.606% | \n"; echo "Football - Fractured wrists, chipped teeth, neck strains, head lacerations, dislocated hips and jammed fingers. | \n"; echo "
| 275,123 | \n"; echo "0.362% | \n"; echo "ATVs, Mopeds, Minibikes - Riders of ATVs were frequently injured when they were thrown from vehicles. There were also fractured wrists, dislocated hands, shoulder sprains, head cuts and lumbar strains. | \n"; echo "
| 274,867 | \n"; echo "0.362% | \n"; echo "Baseball, Softball - Head injuries from bats and balls. Ankle injuries from running bases or sliding into them. | \n"; echo "
| 269,249 | \n"; echo "0.354% | \n"; echo "Exercise, Exercise Equipment - Twisted ankles and cut chins from tripping on treadmills. Head injuries from falling backward from exercise balls, ankle sprains from jumping rope. | \n"; echo "
| 186,544 | \n"; echo "0.245% | \n"; echo "Soccer - Twisted ankles or knees after falls, fractured arms during games. | \n"; echo "
| 164,607 | \n"; echo "0.217% | \n"; echo "Swimming - Head injuries from hitting the bottom of pools, and leg injuries from accidentally falling into pools. | \n"; echo "
| 96,119 | \n"; echo "0.126% | \n"; echo "Skiing, Snowboarding - Head injuries from falling, cut legs and faces, sprained knees or shoulders. | \n"; echo "
| 85,580 | \n"; echo "0.113% | \n"; echo "Lacrosse, Rugby, & other Ball Games - Head and facial cuts from getting hit by balls and sticks, injured ankles from falls. | \n"; echo "
There are roughly 30 million kids 14 and under in organised sports in the states. Here is the breakdown of hospital visits for the 11 most popular sports.
\n"; echo "| Estimated Number of Injuries | \n"; echo "Sport and Type of Injury | \n"; echo "|
|---|---|---|
| # Reported | \n"; echo "% of Pop. | \n"; echo "|
| 215,000 | \n"; echo "0.717% | \n"; echo "Football | \n"; echo "
| 200,000 | \n"; echo "0.667% | \n"; echo "Bicycling | \n"; echo "
| 170,000 | \n"; echo "0.567% | \n"; echo "Basketball | \n"; echo "
| 110,000 | \n"; echo "0.367% | \n"; echo "Baseball, Softball | \n"; echo "
| 88,000 | \n"; echo "0.293% | \n"; echo "Soccer | \n"; echo "
| 66,000 | \n"; echo "0.220% | \n"; echo "Skateboarding | \n"; echo "
| 65,000 | \n"; echo "0.217% | \n"; echo "Trampolines | \n"; echo "
| 47,000 | \n"; echo "0.157% | \n"; echo "In-line, roller skating | \n"; echo "
| 25,000 | \n"; echo "0.083% | \n"; echo "Skiing, snowboarding | \n"; echo "
| 20,000 | \n"; echo "0.067% | \n"; echo "Hockey | \n"; echo "
| 16,000 | \n"; echo "0.053% | \n"; echo "Sledding, tobogganing | \n"; echo "
Rather annoying for this post, this study published their numbers as a total over 17 years. The best I can do for you is divide the 40,000 by 17 to give a per year rate, and then average the stated 'roughly 2 million' and 'roughly 9 million' people climbing.
\n"; echo "So safer than pretty much any other activity...BUUUUT 58% of the injuries were fractures, sprains, and strains, as in crutches for at least a month. So lower possibility, higher consequences.
\n"; echo "This study compares the chances of injury or death based on the number of times you do something.
\n"; echo "| Activity | \n"; echo "Chance of Injury | \n"; echo "Chance of Death | \n"; echo "
|---|---|---|
| Fairground Rides | \n"; echo "1 in 2,326,000 rides | \n"; echo "1 in 834,000,000 rides | \n"; echo "
| Aircraft Accidents | \n"; echo "? | \n"; echo "1 in 125,000,000 passenger journeys | \n"; echo "
| Rail Accidents | \n"; echo "1 in 1,533,000 passenger journeys | \n"; echo "1 in 43,000,000 passenger journeys | \n"; echo "
| Canoeing | \n"; echo "? | \n"; echo "1 in 750,000 outings | \n"; echo "
| Rock Climbing | \n"; echo "? | \n"; echo "1 in 320,000 climbs | \n"; echo "
| Scuba Diving | \n"; echo "? | \n"; echo "1 in 200,000 dives | \n"; echo "
| Surgical anaesthesia | \n"; echo "? | \n"; echo "1 in 185,000 operations | \n"; echo "
| Hang-gliding | \n"; echo "? | \n"; echo "1 in 116,000 flights | \n"; echo "
| Road Accidents | \n"; echo "1 in 1,432,000 kilometres travelled | \n"; echo "1 in 16,800 people | \n"; echo "
| Maternal death in pregnancy | \n"; echo "? | \n"; echo "1 in 8,200 maternities | \n"; echo "
| Burns or scalds in the house | \n"; echo "1 in 610 people | \n"; echo "? | \n"; echo "
I'll just quote the first climbing article and you can face palm along with me:
'We found that the climbers who fell from heights higher than 20 feet accounted for 70 percent of the patients that were hospitalized for a rock climbing-related injury'
Solution: USE A FREAKING ROPE!!!
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