Giornale sport - The club doctor, the man in the shadows
«Sport is good for your health,» one reads almost everywhere. While there is no doubt that this statement contains much truth, the fact remains that statistics also indicate that 430,000 active athletes are injured and 150 even lose their lives each year in Switzerland.
Soccer, the quintessential popular sport with its 340,000 members, has as many as 72,000 injuries per year. Field hockey, another popular sport in our country, has 27,000 registered members and «produces» 4,800 injuries each year. These figures affect all practitioners, of all levels.
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