UAB Embarks on Study of Spectator Injuries at Sporting Events

Injuries are part of the game. That is a common refrain in sports, usually referring to the athletes. But sometimes, it is the spectators who get hurt.   “You don’t expect to be injured when you attend a sporting event as a spectator,” said Amit Momaya, M.D., a sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) . “You certainly don’t expect to die, yet there are any number of cases where spectators are inju