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Abstract
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The study drew its material from schools and 21 states, which states include 68% of the total population of United States. The purpose of these studies has been to augment the very inadequate data which now exists on the incidence of injuries, the nature of injuries, and the causes of these injuries in all aspects of physical education within the gymnasium, the athletic field, and the playground.
During the school year 1931 1932 a total of 510 schools reported the accident which occurred in physical education activities. A total of 2370 accidents were reported with 11,308 days lost from physical education as a result of those injuries. Using these figures as a basis for the estimation of national figures, the following estimates are made: that there are 17,329 accidents in physical activities for the four million - odd secondary school students; that 70,761 days were lost from physical education as a result of these activities,,,, 18,329 days lost from school during the year 1930 want to 1932 due to accidents which occurred in physical education activities.
In studying the incidence of accidents according to the number of people participating in the various activities, the activities which are most hazardous are found to be touch football, heavy apparatus, and American football. The next group of activities rated as very dangerous were lacrosse, wrestling, and tumbling. The activity showing the greatest degree of seriousness work in order: heavy apparatus, touch football, wrestling, football, tumbling, and speed ball.
Part of The body injured in the various activities and the nature of injury or study. It was found that the most prevalent parts of the body to be injured or the leg and foot, arm and hand, and the head; is that the various activity shown that different areas were most frequently affected according to the nature of the activity... |