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Data: The Pickleball Fracture Curve

Chart data used in the essay, extracted from the values in the published page. No new data collected; see essay footnotes for full citations.

Files

• participation.csv — SFIA U.S. pickleball player estimates, 2019–2024 (millions).
• ed_endpoints.csv — NEISS nationally estimated pickleball ED visits for the two verified Cheng endpoints (2020, 2022) with the essay’s derived per-1,000-player rates.
• age_anchors.csv — published age anchors for ED injuries (Cheng et al. 2024). Only the 60–79 combined share (73%) and mean age are published; other bins are shown pale in the chart with no values.
• mechanism.csv — falls and wrist-injury shares (Yu et al. 2025; Weiss et al. 2021).

Sources and access

• Cheng R, et al. 2024 (NEISS analysis, via PubMed Central). DOI 10.1016/j.asmr.2024.101067.
• Yu J, et al. 2025. DOI 10.1177/23259671241305364.
• Weiss H, et al. 2021. DOI 10.1186/s40621-021-00327-9.
• SFIA 2025 Topline Participation Report.
• Data extracted from the essay file on 2026-10-11.

Transformations

• Per-1,000-player rates are the essay’s own arithmetic (ED visits ÷ SFIA players), not published incidence rates.
• The 2020 dip (−14%) is shown as reported; the essay labels it a pandemic closure artifact, not a modeled safety improvement.