By:Nick Weimer
The American Journal of Sports Medicine published a study titled “
An Analysis of Specific Lower Extremity Injury Rates on Grass and Field Turf Playing Surfaces in NFL Games” in Sept. 2012. The study, which was affiliated with countless orthopedic surgery clinics across the United States, sampled all of the 2,680 NFL games that were played between 2000-2009 (2,002 games on natural grass and 678 games on Field Turf). In the NFL, there exists a committee called the Injury Surveillance System (ISS) that includes doctors and statisticians who analyze NFL injuries and strive to make the game as medically safe as possible. The study data included 1,528 knee sprains and 1,503 ankle sprains that were acknowledged by the ISS over the 10-year span.
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