I will throw out the question for the board.
We have had a lot of injuries, attributed to many things.
I wonder if we should revisit the issue of playing on turf since they can do marvelous things with heated grass fields in cold weather areas (See Green Bay field).
For reference DONU uses Second Generation Field Turf with cork instead of tire for filler installed in 2013 I think.
Here is a graph from a study of football injuries (NFL) from 2006-2012:

You will notice that there is no statical difference between surfaces although a trend for an increase from left to right.
I will also live you with a link from a paper from Stanford quoting a higher incidence of ACL injuries on Field Turf compared to grass.
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Note there is never been a higher incidence of injuries on turf with soccer players.
I would also like to look at what type of shoulder pads we wear to see if there is any data about differences in shoulder injuries by manufacturers since we seem to have a lot of shoulder issues this year. If any one knows what kind we wear I would love to know.
GBR.
We have had a lot of injuries, attributed to many things.
I wonder if we should revisit the issue of playing on turf since they can do marvelous things with heated grass fields in cold weather areas (See Green Bay field).
For reference DONU uses Second Generation Field Turf with cork instead of tire for filler installed in 2013 I think.
Here is a graph from a study of football injuries (NFL) from 2006-2012:

You will notice that there is no statical difference between surfaces although a trend for an increase from left to right.
I will also live you with a link from a paper from Stanford quoting a higher incidence of ACL injuries on Field Turf compared to grass.

Revisiting the Artificial Turf vs. Natural Grass Injury Debate | Sideline Sports Doc
I've written previously about injury rates on FieldTurf versus natural grass and in 2011 one well conducted study showed a substantially higher injury rate on FieldTurf. I revisited this issue in 2013 when my partner at Stanford Dr. Jason Dragoo presented results of his study of NCAA athletes...

Note there is never been a higher incidence of injuries on turf with soccer players.
I would also like to look at what type of shoulder pads we wear to see if there is any data about differences in shoulder injuries by manufacturers since we seem to have a lot of shoulder issues this year. If any one knows what kind we wear I would love to know.
GBR.