What is the most dangerous sport in the world? A movie to consider

The winter Olympic Games held in Korea · Pyeongchang also ended successfully in all the competitions on February 25, 2018, but in the competitionIce hockeyYaLugeThere were dangerous sports as we saw, etc. When watching such competition, it is also to watch over the TV while players cool or cool, whether they are injured or not. Well then "What is the most dangerous sport in the world?On the question of science-based YouTube channelAsapSCIENCEI answer.

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Mankind has enjoyed sports for thousands of years, but always adjoins the risk of injury and death. When paying attention to the damage to the body to the last, what on earth is the game which can be called the most dangerous sport in the world?


First of all, I think about the highest proportion of injuries. American in 2016Consumer Product Safety CommitteeAccording to the data collected by the CPSC, the sports that were most frequent due to the injury of the patients being brought to the hospital were basketball for both men and women. The number of men is about 190,000 and that of women is about 35,000.


Also, it is an American male professional basketball league organizationNBAIt has surveyed over 17 years, and it is said that the most injured most basketball players were sprains on the ankle side. According to another study, it is clear that the possibility of getting injured on the ankle increases 4.3 times or more when wearing shoes with air cushions installed in the sole of the shoe.


However, some injuries that occur in sports are less noticeable, and the more injuries there are, the more dangerous sports can not be unconditionally determined. For example, slide a stone on icecurlingHe is injured more than speed skating and lure. Luge slipping through the course of ice at 150 km / h, while riding a small sled, seems very dangerous at first sight, but if you actually take statistics, the probability of injury occurring in one day practice is only 4% It is said that.


Let's also consider the risk of injury involving life.National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury ResearchAccording to the study, the number of fatal accidents in sports reported by high schools in the United States between 1982 and 2016 was 133, and the most fatal accidents were American football. However, considering the competition population, the death rate in American football is only 0.00039%.


Competitions such as American football and ice hockey are often caught as dangerous sports because they compete at great speed. In fact, as a result of necropsy dissecting a dead American football player, many of themChronic traumatic encephalopathy(CTE) had developed onset. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive brain damage disorder in which brain tissue degenerates and atrophies due to repeated damage to the brain that causes a cerebral arrhythmia.


Chronic traumatic encephalopathy develops several years to several decades after receiving damage, and it is a memory disorder, speech disorder, depressed stateParkinson's disease· Causing a cognitive impairment, deterioration, it may be very difficult even to send daily life not only to social life, but also to life. Therefore, it is alleged to be injured at the highest risk of death in sports.


Considering the above, the movie concludes that it is "fighting sports" that strikes each other's body with almost no dangerous sports and little protector after all. Thank you.MMA(Mixed Martial Arts, MMA) and boxing are both more dangerous?


The proportion of mild injuries such as cuts and sprains is over 60% in mixed fighting sports, 50% of boxing, so the mixed fighting sports seems more dangerous. However, 7% of boxers seem to have lost consciousness or suffered serious injury during the game, and if the player with similar experience is a mixed fighting sport, it is only about 4%.


Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is synonymous with "Puntide RankerIt is a disease that is often seen in boxing players so it is called. Mixed fighting sports and American football will distribute damage to the whole body, but boxing is easy to concentrate damage on the head by the rules absolutely. In addition boxing is hooked and straight, etc., the brain is shaken in various directions.



Prizefighter's punching power is said to be about 300 kg to 500 kg, and as the brain shrinks many times when that shock concentrates on the head, the risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy in boxing is inevitable It can be said that it is higher than other sports. Therefore, the movie concludes that boxing is the most dangerous sport.