APA 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Finite Element Method, Contact Sport, Traumatic Brain Injury
12 Jan 2016
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550 000 players under 19 in canada alone. 345 000 players under 19 in usa. Unique skills are required to move around the ice and avoid. Only sport that allows fighting to occur obstacles. Has one of the highest injury rates among all sports. Typical injuries: lacerations, joint trauma, muscle pulls/strains. Concussions have become a growing concern: risk factors associated with specific injury types have been challenging, in part due to impact and inconsistencies with body checking. Recent research reports that the incidence of concussive injuries. Concussions in ice hockey have been reported as one of the most. Contact sport having the highest rate of concussion per have increased slightly over the years common injuries across all levels of play participants: 1. 8 concussions/1000 player hours in nhl. Defines concussion (mtbi) as traumatically induced alteration of mental status that may or may not involve a loss of consciousness of the mechanism in which the concussive injuries occur.
