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The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside us while we live.
In the US, between 2001 and 2005, there were five activities in which traumatic brain injury accounted for greater than 7.5% of Emergency Department visits for that activity. The five include horseback riding (11.7%), ice-skating (10.4%), riding all-terrain vehicles (8.4%), tobogganing/sledding (8.3%), and bicycling (7.7%). American football accounted for 5.7%. J. Gilchrist, K. Thomas, M. Wald, and J. Langlois, “Nonfatal Traumatic Brain Injuries from Sports and Recreation Activities—United States, 2001–2005,”
In the US, from 2003 to 2012, equestrian sports accounted for the majority (45.2%) of all sports-related traumatic brain injuries. E. A. Winkler et al., “Adult Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injury in United States Trauma Centers,” Neurosurgical Focus 40, no. 4 (April 2016): E4.
