Shoulder Injury In College Football

LITERATURE REVIEW
It may only take a couple of seconds for a college football player’s career or season to be taken away from him. Hundreds of college football players get hurt every year; most are sidelined for just a couple of weeks. Some players, however, lose their entire season and even careers to just one injury. When a player is not able to play the entire season, they may lose their scholarship. Standing on a football field’s sideline with an injury is one of the worst feelings a player can have. Normally, teams only have one or two players who can start at a position. Knowing which positions get hurt the most would be useful, because a coach or manager then knows which positions he needs to draft or recruit to his team, so there are more than one or two players capable of playing the position. If for example, offensive running backs are the most prone to being injured, a coach can recruit and train
Kaplan and others (2005) focused an shoulder injuries by position. The most common shoulder injury sustained by players was an Acromioclavicular Separation. The positions that were the most likely to sustain shoulder injuries were offensive quarterbacks and defensive backs. The positions that were the most likely to have surgery performed where defensive linebackers and offensive lineman.
Although not a study of collegiate football players, there was a 4-year high school study (Prager and others, 1989) done on injuries and positions. Prager and others (1989) evaluated which position had the highest injury rate and which injury was most frequently sustained in varsity football teams. Knee injuries were the most common among all team players. The positions that had the highest risk of injury were the offensive halfbacks, offensive tackles, defensive linebackers, and the offensive