Olympic fever sees spike in A&E sports injuries Attendances for sports injury have increased more than overall A&E admissions, which was just seven per cent over the same period. Just over half of all A&E attendances for sports injuries involved boys and young men aged between 10 and 29. The peak time for people to arrive at A&E with sports injuries was on Saturday afternoons between 3pm and 5pm; and Sundays between 11am and 4pm. Tim Straughan, chief executive of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which produced the figures, said: "Sport seems to be catching the public imagination at the moment with the Olympics just around the corner. While our hospital figures do not of course represent levels of sports participation over time, they do give an insight into the amount of injuries ending up in A&E through sport. The report shows that there has been a considerable rise in such injuries being treated by A&E staff, with cases up by about 15 per cent in a year. About half of all of these cases - so just over 200,000 - were for males aged 10 to 29. Attendances were highest in the South West and lowest in London, the figures showed.