Basketball is the leading cause of youth sports injuries, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins University. 

Parents may worry about their son being laid out on the football field or their daughter going down hard on the soccer pitch, but a study from Johns Hopkins Medicine points to the basketball court as the sporting arena causing the most injuries to youth.

According to the report, approximately 30 million youth participate in organized sports with 3.5 million injuries reported each year. One-third of all injuries in childhood are the results of sports.

The leading cause of death from a sports-related injury is brain injury. Sports and recreational activities are related to approximately 21 percent of all traumatic brain injuries among American youth. About half of all head injuries occur during bicycling, skateboarding or skating accidents.

Sports injuries are most related to contact and collisions and the majority (62 percent) occur during practice.

Basketball is the clear leader in hospital emergency room visits with an estimated 314,000 people walking through the emergency room doors, 144,000 of those being ages 15-24.

Football ranks second with an estimated 266,000 injuries, mostly arm injuries and broken fingers.

Soccer ranks fifth on the listing after skateboards, scooters and hoverboards accidents in third and swimming pool accidents in fourth. Soccer accounts for about 179,000 injuries each year.

Baseball and softball comes in at sixth followed by lacrosse and rugby in seventh. Volleyball, with an estimated 51,000 injuries, ranks ninth.