Hiking and mountaineering deaths, and why Everest got safer
Hiking deaths: falls, first-day cardiac arrests, national park causes, and why Everest’s death rate halved to 0.7% even as crowds grew.
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Golf injuries, golf carts and the lightning myth
Golf injuries to backs and elbows, child club accidents, golf cart risks, and why only 3% of US lightning deaths happen on golf courses.
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Tennis injuries, tennis elbow and the injection that backfired
Tennis injuries by body part, the tennis elbow injection trial where 54% saw pain return, and how to play carefully when training time rises.
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Skiing and snowboarding injuries, and what the helmet cannot do
File photo: a ski lift above a snowy slope. Photo: DimiTalen, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · September 2026 The National Ski Areas Association’s end-of-season report found that helmets were worn on 94% of U.S. skier visits in 2025-26, up from about 25% in 2002-03. Use was lowest in the Midwest (88%) and…
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Swimming injuries, shoulders, and the lesson that changes the odds
File photo: a swimming pool. Photo: Marc Ryckaert (MJJR), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. In the news · March 2026 Researchers followed 167 Portuguese competitive swimmers over six months, 75 of them with shoulder injuries and 92 without. Swimming-adapted questionnaires (ASES-swim, SSV-swim) distinguished injured from healthy swimmers better than generic shoulder scores, with ASES-swim…
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Cycling injuries, helmets, and the trade the numbers show
File photo: a protected bicycle lane in Burlington, Vermont. Photo: Ezekielf, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · July 2026 Great Britain recorded 79 pedal cyclist deaths, 4,311 serious injuries and 16,042 total cyclist casualties in 2025. Over 2004-2025, cyclist deaths fell 41% while serious injuries rose 34% and cycling traffic grew 42%. About…
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Wrestling injuries, weight cutting, and the rule of 1998
File photo: a collegiate wrestling match. Photo: U.S. Air Force photograph by Justin Pacheco, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · April 2026 The national high school federation’s wrestling rules committee approved a higher minimum body fat for female wrestlers, moving it from 12% to 19% for the 2026-27 season. The committee cited…
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Running injuries and the arthritis that did not happen
File photo: a jogging trail in Tuen Mun Park, Hong Kong. Photo: Wing1990hk, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. In the news · July 2026 A review in Cureus pooled current evidence on running and knee osteoarthritis. It reports a U-shaped pattern: 3.5% prevalence in recreational runners, versus 10.2% in sedentary people and 13.3% in…
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Soccer injuries: knees, heads, and what the trials found
File photo: a soccer match. Photo: U.S. Army photo by Spc. Dean Johnson, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · July 2026 A case-control study reported in JAMA Neurology compared amateur players who headed the ball with those who did not. Heading was followed by short-lived rises in two brain-injury blood proteins, S100B…
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American Football Injuries: What Gets Hurt, and the Rule Change That Worked
Half of football injuries are to the lower limb, the risk is concentrated in games and on one play type, and moving a line five yards cut concussions on that play by four-fifths.
