Unless one looks closely statistics can be confusing. The title of the most recent statistics, "Basketball sent more people to the ER than any other sport". The writing after starts with "she drives, she shoots, she goes to the emergency room". The statistics below do not state that these are female athletes as the previous sentence indicates.

Using information from the Consumer Product Safety Committee a Loyola University Health System study found Top Ten ER-treated injuries:

• Basketball 512,213
• Bicycling 485,669
• Football 418,260
• Soccer 174,686
• Baseball 155,898
• Skateboards 112,544
• Trampolines 108,029
• Softball 106,884
• Swimming/diving 82,354
• Horseback riding 73,576

Are these statistics relative to local, regional or state levels? Are they related to girls sports only or are they mixed with boys? Are these statistics related to competitive or recreational play? Injury reporting needs to be less confusing than this. Compare the statistics above and below and see the top four categories have not changed in 2 years.

According to new data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission listed:

• Basketball as the top injury producing sport in the country. Last year more than 1.6 million injuries were treated in hospitals and doctor's offices.
• Number 2 on that list was bicycling with 1.3 million injuries.
• Number 3 was football with 1 million injuries.
• Fourth was soccer with more than 450,000 injuries.

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