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 injured 3% of the time.
Head injuries are the third most common type of hockey injury accounting.
for 8% of all injuries. If you were to include facial injuries which would be a.
combination of the head, teeth/mouth, jaw/chin and eye injuries they would.
represent 26% of all reported injuries. A special analysis has been undertaken.
by the Hockey Development Centre of Canada to better understand this problem.
The head is often driven into the boards awkwardly which leads to concussions.
NHL,OHL amd Junior A players are suffering head injuries because they do not.
have to wear full face masks and are subject to stick infraction.
CATASTROPHIC INJURIES.
Catastrophic injury is any incident causing death or permanent long term.
disability. Hockey played out of Ontario has seen a dramatic decrease in.
catastrophic injuries. There were 26 such injuries in 1992 compared to 44 in.
1989 and 79 in 1986. In the past, Ontario had represented almost half of (more.
than 200) spinal injuries since 1976. The reduction of these numbers is due.
from hockey executives who introduced a rule prohibiting checking from behind in.
the 1985 season. A report done by Glen Mccurdie (manager of the health benifts.
for the CHA) told of nine Canadian players who suffered broken necks, with three.
reslting in quadriplegia. In the 1992 season four players suffered broken necks,.
two were classed as unavoidable because they involved players losing their.
balance and falling into the boards.
Finally, league and executive members are beginning to crack down on.
people who hit from behind and cause catastrophic injuries. On December 6, 1994,.
OHL commissioner David Branch suspended Steve McLaren for the entire season.
