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More injuries to minor hockey players are caused by unintentional collisions rather than bodychecks, according to a new study.
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''Nine-year-olds do not walk away from their first year of bodychecking with incurable injuries,'' said Dr. Barry Willer, who led the research team from the University of New York at Buffalo. ''They walk away with the experience of having lived with bodychecking and the next year they have almost no injuries.''
Willer and his team used a sample of 2,630 boys over two seasons - the largest ever for a study of this kind - from the minor hockey association in Burlington, Ont.
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The study found that injuries peaked in two age groups - the nine- and 13-year-olds.
The rise among nine-year-olds was attributed to it being their first season playing with body contact, while the spike in injuries to 13-year-olds was due to ''increased hormone levels,'' according to Dr. John Leddy, one of the study's co-authors
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''If you don't want bodychecking, don't have bodychecking,'' he said. ''But if you have it, don't ever introduce it at 15 or 16 because that's dangerous.
''It's just flat-out dangerous.''
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In addition to the findings on bodychecking, the study also found that players enrolled in rep hockey were six times more likely to be injured than those in house league and that injuries are four times more likely to happen in games than practices.
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''Nine-year-olds do not walk away from their first year of bodychecking with incurable injuries,'' said Dr. Barry Willer, who led the research team from the University of New York at Buffalo. ''They walk away with the experience of having lived with bodychecking and the next year they have almost no injuries.''
Willer and his team used a sample of 2,630 boys over two seasons - the largest ever for a study of this kind - from the minor hockey association in Burlington, Ont.
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The study found that injuries peaked in two age groups - the nine- and 13-year-olds.
The rise among nine-year-olds was attributed to it being their first season playing with body contact, while the spike in injuries to 13-year-olds was due to ''increased hormone levels,'' according to Dr. John Leddy, one of the study's co-authors
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''If you don't want bodychecking, don't have bodychecking,'' he said. ''But if you have it, don't ever introduce it at 15 or 16 because that's dangerous.
''It's just flat-out dangerous.''
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In addition to the findings on bodychecking, the study also found that players enrolled in rep hockey were six times more likely to be injured than those in house league and that injuries are four times more likely to happen in games than practices.
(yeah im know this is prob more than 10% of the article...but there were SOOO many interesting things i just had to share
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