<p>I agree with ordinarylives. Accidents happen, even without contact sports. </p>
<p>3 kids, all three play instruments: guitar, tenor sax, alto sax, clarinet, all at very high levels. All three play sports, at varying levels. We’ve had 3 broken wrists, a broken elbow and a knocked out permanent tooth. Only the broken elbow happened during an actual “sport” situation. The broken wrists happened during normal, kid activities… a fall from a bed, a fall on a playground, a horse who took a step too soon while being mounted. And the teeth were knocked loose/out when DD took a header off her bike, using her teeth to block her fall. (One knocked out, several knocked loose. The knocked out tooth was reimplanted, and the loose ones were stabilized. 3 root canals later, she’s still playing saxophone, and using a mouthguard for ALL sports.) Had she used her hand to block the fall, it would have been another broken wrist.</p>
<p>None of the accidents or recuperation times adversly affected either their sports or musical development, when looked at in the long term.</p>