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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a local ortho surgeon who read over some of this, and have a response. The highest incident of lacrosse player injuries I treat are hand and finger bone or tissue related. The number of cases rises with the popularity of lacrosse adding participants. The largest percentage lacrosse injuries we refer are head trauma related. What is disturbing is the baseline statistics for youth and high school football head trauma injuries has been trending down, while lacrosse has been trending up. Football still has a higher rate of head trauma injuries at the youth and high school levels over lacrosse but it is lacrosse that has distinctly trended upwards. There is no conclusive data yet to suggest why this is the case because head trauma injuries are not indexed in a level of detail to identify injuries rates with age or weight of the participant which collided with the injured participant. I do believe there is some causality to explain why head trauma injuries are rising for lacrosse players, and the safety issue of younger and smaller participants is a shared theory but we have no data yet to prove it. I would agree that contact sport participation with large age or size participant spreads at the youth and high school levels is a material risk to the safety of participants, and do not endorse such participation. [/quote]

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