University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health researchers recently disclosed outcomes of a study on whether high school athletes who focused on one sport put themselves at a higher chance of suffering an injury in the lower halves of their bodies.
The researchers found that those high school athletes who said they were at least somewhat focused on only one sport throughout the athletic year had injuries in their lower halves of their bodies 50 percent more than athletes who played more than one sport throughout the athletic year, a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health release said.
The study also found that those high school athletes who said they extremely focused on one sport throughout the athletic year suffered injuries in the lower halves of their bodies 85 percent more than athletes who played more than one sport in the athletic year.
Some of the injuries included sprained ligaments, conditions such as tendinitis or tenosynovitis, and strained muscles and tendons in the lower halves of athletes's bodies.
The study involved 1,544 athletes, half males and half females, with an average age of 16.
