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NFL injury data from an analytics company shows that 7 of the 10 stadiums with the highest injury counts from 2017 to 2022 had artificial surfaces.
Injuries occurred on turf fields "significantly" more frequently than grass fields in 10 of the past 11 NFL seasons. NFLPA says new data shows turf fields still cause more injuries than natural ...
Previous research had shown that athletes are at risk of a non-contact lower-limb injury if their cleat sticks in the playing surface and doesn't release. Football players are especially ...
[96] Metatarsophalangeal joint sprain, known as "turf toe" when the big toe is involved, is named from the injury being associated with playing sports on rigid surfaces such as artificial turf and is a fairly common injury among professional American football players. Artificial turf is a harder surface than grass and does not have much "give ...
Over a 13-year period from September 1989 to June 2002, there were 94 players who sustained catastrophic head injuries—8 of these players died as a result of the injury, 46 sustained permanent neurological damage, and 36 made a full recovery. 56% of these players had a history of head injuries, 71% of them occurring in the same season as ...
The artificial surface, as many from this era, was blamed for excessive leg injuries. In 1989, the orange-and-white checkerboard end zone patterns were restored, and an interlocking "UT" was placed at midfield. The artificial surface was used through the 1993 season, the last game on the surface being a 62–14 win over Vanderbilt.
More from NFL conference call: Jeff Miller, NFL executive overseeing health & safety, says there is no statistical difference in injury data going back to 2015 for Achilles' injuries suffered on ...
Brown was the last of the Ivies to play on a grass playing surface. [7] The grass field, used for nearly a century, was oddly "domed" in the middle, an anomaly among football fields and a potential injury risk. [7] In summer 2021 a "perfect" [7] FieldTurf surface [2] was installed in time for that year's fall football season. [7]