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Old Thu Dec 19, 2013, 04:15pm
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by Altor View Post
MD Longhorn:
Apparently the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee has evidence of injuries that resulted from attempted hurdling.
I'm sure they do, but do they have the ratio of injuries per attempt?

It's a lot of work to collect these stats. The only case I'm aware of a football rules governing body's studying statistically the rate of injuries in certain circumstances was 40 yrs. ago with blocking below the waist on kick returns. Usually they just go by anecdotes, hunches, and a priori reasoning that certain practices are more dangerous than others.
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