Cruz CA, et al. - During the 2009/10 to 2013/14 academic years, researchers characterized the injury rates, mechanisms, time loss, and rates of surgery for hip/groin injuries in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes across 25 collegiate sports. A total of 1,984 hip injuries were reported between 2009/10 and 2013/14 in 25 NCAA sports, including 9 male and female sports, 3 male-only sports, and 4 female-only sports, resulting in an overall hip injury rate of 53.1/100,000 athletic exposures (AEs). Men were more commonly affected than women in sex-comparable sports, such as basketball, cross-country, lacrosse, ice hockey, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, swimming, and tennis. Investigators found that impingement-type sports were most frequently linked to hip injuries. They also observed that hip injuries sustained in athletes who played impingement-type sports had a significantly higher rate of surgical intervention than other sport classifications.