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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Well, I mean track & field or swimming would be great.[/quote]

You can bang your head swimming colliding with a swimmer coming the other way or miscounting your backstroke strokes into the wall.[/quote]

You do not know anything about swimming!!  No swimmers are not getting concussions. [/quote]

Um, I was an international swimming representative. And you? [/quote]

NP. I swam all my life and all of my kids swim year round. Swimming is one of the lowest risk sports for concussions. Yes sometimes little kids bump heads in the water in practice. That is nowhere near as risky as a football game or any other contact sport.

Look at data on this. It is very clear. [/quote]

Some of the riskiest situations are rec swimming lanes where you have bad adult swimmers who can't swim straight/circle swim or have 8 foot wide breaststroke kick which smashes another swimmer in the head. Then there are the macho guys with paddles who hit you in the hand or head.

When I was younger there were head injuries - things like kids fooling around on the pool deck and falling on someone in the pool, slipping on the deck because of running, breaststroke kick to the head/face of a following swimmer, tumble turning into an incoming swimmer, backstrokers going off course, relay swimmers hitting the bottom of the shallow end.

I get that it is not as bad as football, hockey or ultimate frisbee, but it is not riskless. USA Swimming has a concussion protocol for coaches.

Here's the data fyi. https://www.lifefloor.com/blog-publishing/aquatic-concussions-anecdotal-problem-or-widespread-issue#:~:text=The%20good%20news%2C%20though%2C%20is,awareness%20around%20concussions%20in%20swimming.[/quote]

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