Research in sports medicine.

significant problems do exist. Nicholas has repeatedly pointed out that each year 17 million Americans will sustain a significant insult from participation in sports or recreation. This is close to every person in the state of California. The NEISS survey has reported 2,600,000 hospital visits for recreational injuries, and extrapolation of known data indicates that there will be just under 1,000,000 football injuries in our approximately 14,500 high school and prep schools next fall. Our 5,000,000 skiers are providing us with their 250,000 injuries including 80,000 fractures each year. Trauma of this magnitude translates into