‘School, family and then hockey!’ Coaches’ views on dual career in ice hockey

Ice Hockey Coaches’ Perceptions of Athlete Leadership

Influence of viewing professional ice hockey on youth hockey injuries.

INTRODUCTION Most televised National Hockey League (NHL) games include violent body checks, illegal hits and fights. We postulated that minor league players imitated these behaviours and that not seeing these games would reduce the rate of injuries among younger hockey players. METHODS Using a quasi-experimental design, we compared 7 years of televised NHL matches (2002-2009) with the year of...

Concussions in Ice Hockey.

This literature review will summarize, compare, and evaluate the reviewed studies addressing and investigating the relationship between concussion and the sports of hockey. We will accomplish this by identifying prevalence rates, recognizing common mechanisms of causation, describing and discussing prevention and care, and summarizing the results to provide implications for further studies. We ...

Ice hockey injuries.

OBJECTIVE This article reviews the distribution and determinants of injuries reported in the pediatric ice hockey literature, and suggests potential injury prevention strategies and directions for further research. DATA SOURCES Thirteen electronic databases, the ISI Web of Science, and 'grey literature' databases were searched using a combination of Medical Subject Headings and text words to ...

[Ice-hockey accidents].

The present study is based on 2680 ice hockey accidents encountered in Switzerland over a period of 5 years: 1880 injuries during matches are compared with 800 that took place in training. Age: the athletes injuried during training were younger that 20 in 40% of cases; 38% of injuries in matches occurred to players aged between 20 and 24. 25% of accidents were caused by blows from the stick, pa...