That's the number of injuries sustained by 1,693 student-athletes prior to entering Stanford from 2010 to 2013. The figures come from a study of the athletes' mandatory electronic pre-participation evaluations led by professor of orthopaedic surgery Gordon Matheson. On average, players missed 31.4 days of competition for each injury.
"Our goal is to see more schools using this," Matheson says. "There is no way that individual schools can, using paper collection approaches that are not standardized, collect aggregate data of sufficient size to be able to formulate ideas regarding injury and illness prevention. Standardizing the approach and using an electronic registry are typical in many business and health sectors but not in sport."
