Abstract
According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, participation of high school athletes in interscholastic sports has risen annually since 1983, with approximately 6.5 million high school athletes (2.6 million female athletes) competing in sports in the USA during the 1998–9 school year (NFSHSA). With increased participation in sports, the number of high school athletes at risk for injuries is also likely to increase. Recently, an estimated 1.3 million high school sports injuries were reported (J Athl Train). Surprisingly, the literature on high school sports injury epidemiology is limited to selected sports and levels of participation. Thus, injury surveillance and analytic studies in high school sports are greatly needed, especially in the area of player-related risk factors. The symposium's purpose will be to identify and recommend how future high school sports injury epidemiological studies/interventions should be conducted so that sports medicine professionals and athletic directors may implement preventive measures and allocate resources well. Objectives include highlighting previous studies and addressing future needs in: epidemiological methodology, comparison of injury rates/risks among boys and girl athletes in similar sports, injury studies specific to female athletes, catastrophic high school injuries, and the physician's role in high school sports injury research. The symposium may help to recommend guidelines in high school sports injury epidemiology.
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