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AAP Grand Rounds 1:42-43 (1999)
© 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics

SPORTS MEDICINE

Ice Hockey Injuries

Source: Roberts WO, Brust DB, Leonard B.Youth hockey tournament injuries: rates and patterns compared to season play. Medicine & Science In Sports & Exercise. 1999;31(1):46–51.

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This prospective study of ice hockey injuries during tournaments in Minnesota included 695 boys at the peewee (ages 12–13 years), bantam (ages 14–15), high school varsity, and community-based high school junior gold (ages 15–19) levels, and 112 girls playing pee-wee girls hockey (ages 12–15 years). NAIRS (National Athletic Injuries/Illness Reporting Systems) criteria were used to report injuries. The main outcome was 60 injuries in boys and 4 injuries in girls. Twenty-six of the injuries in boys were significant, whereas none were in girls. The results showed that cerebral concussion . . . [Full Text of this Article]

E.F. Luckstead, MD
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Eastern Virgina Medical School, Norfolk, VA