Ice hockey

The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine: An IOC Medical Commission Publication, Epidemiology of Injury in Olympic Sports

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 411-446

  Lau, Breda H F ^a   Benson, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catastrophic sport injuries permanent, severe functional brain or spinal cord disability; Contusions common type of injury in players at all levels of competition; Direct and indirect games injuries from contact with boards; Hockey injuries by anatomical location; Ice hockey; Incidence of injury and player position; Injury rates across three periods of game play; Injury rates and practices and games; National Hockey League (NHL) one fourth of all groin abdominal injuries; Society for International Hockey Research a game played on ice rink

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955676934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444316872.ch28     Document Type: Chapter

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