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Sports are actually the leading cause of eye injuries in children. One in eighteen college athletes will sustain an eye injury each season. Obviously there are many long-term health and social benefits to playing sports, but 40,000 people each year find themselves in the emergency room because of a sports-related eye injury. More than 100,000 individuals a year visit their doctor because of an eye-related sports injury. The bottom line is that sports related eye injuries do happen, they can be severe, and they can cause permanent vision loss.