What's the injury and death rate of Muay Thai?

What%26#039;s the injury and death rate of Muay Thai? Is it safer than western boxing?





I would be thankful if you give a source (webpage) of your answer, if you can.|||Injury and death rate are fairly low in muay thai compared to other combat sports, and especially compared to Western boxing.


Most of the serious injuries in Western boxing come from repetitive punches to the head in training, sparring and in competitions. The long term effects on a boxer can be quite evident (slurred speech... etc).


This is something that is avoided in Muay Thai due to the variety of techniques (not all of which are targetted at the head. A knee to the stomach will end up a fight very quickly...


Injuries are quite frequent in Muay Thai bouts, though they are rarely very serious or fatal.


A lot of fights will be ended by cuts sustained through elbow strikes. Vertical cuts do not heal very easily, and it is hard to stem the flow of blood, which is why muay thai fighters like vertical elbow techniques.


Other injuries include broken ribs, occasionally broken hands, legs, and noses, popped shoulders... etc. Most fights end up with nothing more than marked bruising.





The following article shows how muay thai has evolved from a deadly art with an extremely high injury rate, to a relatively safe combat sport: http://muaythai.me/knotty_muay_thai.php|||From what I%26#039;ve seen, the injury and death rate would depend on whether or not it was a fight, sparring or training. In the Fight Science documentary on TV they showed many types of blows as done on a sensor equipped dummy, and the muay tai style knee delivered forces about the same as a thirty mile per hour car crash would. you might check out http://www.horizonmuaythai.com/history.h... and http://www.thaiboxing.com/history.php for some great info.|||Injurry rate-- high.





Safer than boxing-- they are equally dangerous, they are full contact, lots of sparring.|||safer