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150% More Kids Getting Hurt in Gym Class
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The worst injury I ever witnessed in gym class was during a game of dodgeball. One nerd caught a ricochet off another nerd’s skull, thrown by the captain of the football team.
It knocked the jock out of the game. It hurt his pride. He never fully recovered. Nowadays, gym class injuries are more common than ever!
Experts say between 1997 and 2007, the number of physical education-related injuries in kids jumped 150%.
Was it that awful climbing rope? Nope, according to data in the journal Pediatrics, 70% of the injuries happened during running, basketball, football, volleyball, soccer or gymnastics.
Researcher suspect the cause is lack of physical activity, saying if kids aren’t out moving and playing before age 9 or 10, they’ll lack the motor skills they need later on. 52% of the injuries occurred in middle school.
Listen, I grew up on Nintendo and video games, but my folks always made me go outside and play. And, do you know what my little friends and I did out there? We ran around like idiots pretending to be Super Mario!
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