Most activities do not keep records of injuries, reporting that their activities do not have accidents or injuries. Most accidents are in recreational leisure riding, not shows, events, clinics, or classes. This means by which these can be tabulated is through the emergency room records. Another means of tabulation is through surveys, but the replies do not give an unbiased response. Each study seeks different information with no agreement of what should be reported.
Reports are difficult to be compared.
This base figure was changed in 1990 and again in 1997 to reflect the most current figures from hospital emergency rooms in the United States. The 1997 sample update took into account changes between the 1985 and 1995 sampling frames. These figures omit injuries not treated, treated on site, by private physicians, in free standing clinics or resulting in death without emergency room admission. The first report to the AMEA was in the was in the AMEA News Vol. The head had a decreasing percent of injuries during this period and there was an increase in the percent of injuries to the trunk.