Efforts To Prevent Injuries in Schools Advocated

Slightly more than one-third of injuries to children and adolescents can be attributed to sports and recreation, and almost 30 percent of those occur at school, researchers have found.

Because school settings offer a high degree of adult involvement and control over sports activities, schools would be good places to work on preventing injuries, concludes the study by researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and several other institutions.

There are nearly 4.4 million sports- and recreation-related injuries to children ages 5 to 17 each year, the authors say, or about 10 incidents resulting in injury...