Accidents In Hockey

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Accidents in Hockey

Accidents can and do happen anywhere, anytime to anyone. This statement is very true when dealing with a physical contact sport like hockey. There is a certain amount of risk involved in playing any sport. When an injury occurs, it inflicts tremendous hardship on the injured person, the team and the parents as well. Hockey is a very popular and fun game to play (it is now considered
Canada's national sport, along with lacrosse) but it can also be very dangerous.
As players become better educated about hockey injuries and play by the rules the game will be even more fun to play. This paper will discuss the importance of common and catastrophic injuries, protective equipment, an indepth analysis report, the role of a coach and personal related hockey injuries.

MOST COMMON INJURIES

During the hockey season a person's body ends up getting bruised, injured and banged around. A hockey injury report done by the International
Hockey Centre of Excellence has statistics on the most common hockey injuries and how they occured. the most common injuries are to the shoulder, knee and the head.
Injury to the shoulder is the most common hockey injury in the game today because of the physcial contact. Of the injuries reported in the 1993-
1994 hockey season, 12% of those were shoulder related. Injury to the acromio- clavicular joint was the most frequent because of the bodychecking. Every time a player steps on the ice, he is constantly being pounded into the boards, shoulder first. The glenohumeral was often being injuried mainly from fighting and accidental contact. Hockey manufactures are constantly trying to improve shoulder pads so this injury will not happen.
The knee followed closely behind the shoulder being injured 11% of the time. A knee injury is very serious in hockey because it can end a player's career. Knee injuries usually occur in the open ice area when a player is cutting hard and is kneed or tripped by an opposing player. Accidentally colliding with an opposing player or one of your own teamates, often ends in knee related injuries. The medial collateral ligament was damaged in 80% of all reported knee injuries, followed by the lateral collateral ligament 10% of the time. The cruciate ligament and meniscal were in...

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...fidence back and at first I was afraid to go into the corners. The main reason why my clavicle was fractured was because my shoulder pads were not the most protective piece of equipment compared to other brands.
Two years later in major bantam, I fractured my ulna and raduis bone after being hit from behind the opposition's net. My arm required closed reduction surgery and I was in a cast for two month and out of hockey for three months. Having better equipment could not have helped me in this situation.
When a person is hit from behind, unfortunately the top brand equipment will not be able to withstand the hit and a serious injury usaully occurs. Hockey would be a better game if all hitting from behind was somehow eliminated.

CONCLUSION

Since hockey is a physical contact sport, injuries are bound to happen.
Federations like Hockey Development Canada are routinely doing studies analyzing different factors of hockey injuries so that in the future they can make recommendations on how to eliminate these. We can make hockey an even better game to play if all players would be aware of each other and cut down on cheap
shots.

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