An estimated 135,000 (65 percent) of sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) treated in U.S. emergency departments occur each year in young people ages 5 to 18, according to a study published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention′s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Approximately 8 percent, or more than 10,000, of these young people were hospitalized, the study said.
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