About 18,000 of those injuries involve players aged 5 to 18.

Most injuries involved the hands, eyes, head, face, and ears.

The other injuries are less serious, but involve front-line players.

Those injuries can involve permanent damage to vision, he said.

This injury involves direct trauma to one or more fingers.

Other injuries involved the neck, chest, abdomen, arms and legs.

The consequences are usually less severe than injuries involving other internal organs.

If the injury involves an animal or human bite.

As the number of injuries involving high-soled shoes increases so has the government's concern.

The second largest cause of travelers' deaths is injuries, mainly involving automobiles.