eye injuries

Using a lighter baseball would not significantly increase batted-ball impact injuries to position players in youth baseball, but would likely increase such injuries to pitchers, suggests a first-of-its-kind study.

July is Fireworks Eye Safety Awareness Month, and through its EyeSmart^TM campaign the American Academy of Ophthalmology reminds parents to leave fireworks to professionals.

Soccer has a higher injury rate than many contact/collision sports such as field hockey, rugby, basketball, and football, with players younger than age 15 at higher relative injury risk compared with older players, concludes a clinical report in the journal Pediatrics.

 

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