Read two studies on martial arts injuries - what actually gets hurt isn't what nonpracticioners fear
We all know, that people who don't train fear the broken nose and the brain damage.
I read two injury studies - a US ER one (~310k injuries across all arts) and an older Muay Thai survey - and both point somewhere else: legs.
Strains and sprains lead, the knee was the single most-injured spot, lower body over upper. The split by art is interesting too - karate logged the most injuries overall (also one of the most practiced), MMA had the highest concusion and cut share, dislocations clustered in judo and BJJ.
And one comparison put martial arts around a twentieth of American football's injury rate per participant.
One caveat: around 60% of injuries went unreported in the survey, so the real numbers are probably higher. Not medical advice, just what the papers found.
Full write-up with the sources: https://fightflow.app/blog/most-common-martial-arts-injuries
Curious what you guys actually injure. Mine: ankle, thumb and big toe sprains, so the legs thing holds up for me.