Football and soccer more dangerous than surfing
Who are the biggest thrill seekers of all? Not surfers. Sure, surfing may rank as one of the world's coolest sports, but football -- even soccer -- outstrips it for danger, a new study says.
Based on data from 32 worldwide surfing competitions held between March 1999 and September 2005, researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School found the rate of significant injury among surfers to be 6.6 per 1,000 hours of surfing -- about one-third the rate found in men's college soccer and one-fifth that of men's college football.
"Soccer had about 19 injuries, and college football had about 33,'' in a similar period of activity, says Dr. Andrew Nathanson, an emergency medicine physician at Rhode Island Hospital and lead author of the study, published this month in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
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