Lacrosse is high contact sport. The sport contains many brutally taxing hits to the body with both player to player hits and being hit with the lacrosse stick. With this comes many different injuires. According to the Centers for Diseases Control, Lacrosse is 3rd in youth sport concussion rates. Fatal injuries have occured but there are recent attempts to make the game safter, such as new changes to chest protecter requirments.