Here are some references for those of you who requested information. Once you
access your library database you will discover hundreds of related articles.
 
 
Predictors of Injury in ice hockey:a multivariate, multidisciplinary approach.
Aynsley M. Smith, Michael J. Stuart, Diane M. Weise-Bjornstal and Chris Gunnon
copyright 1997 American Orthopedic Sports Medicine
Published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine
 
 
La Prade RF, Burnett QM, Zarzour R, et al: The effect of the mandatory use of
face masks on facial lacerations and head and neck injuries in ice hockey. A
prospective study. AM J Sports Medicine 23: 773-775, 1995.
 
Janny Brust, Barbara Leonard, Alfred Pheley, William Roberts, Children's Ice
Hockey Injuries, Copyrighted by the American Medical Association. Reprinted
in the American Journal of Diseases of Children, June 1992, Volume 146.
 
G. Marcotte, Fair Play: An approach to hockey for the 1990's: Safety in Ice
Hockey, Philadelphia, American Society of Testing and Materials, 1993,
pp103-108.
 
Meuwisse, WH, Frequency and predictability of sports injuries in
intercollegiate athletes. Canadian J Sports Sci 13:35-42, 1998.
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The facemask, half versus the full, study done by Meuwisse on two Canadian
teams is so new it has not been published. It's the only study to date where
for one full season "they contrasted the rate, and severity of injuries
sustained by Canadian college hockey players in the Western and Atlantic
leagues where half shields are required, to those in Ontario and Quebec where
full shields are mandated. They did not study players who did not wear
shields."
The Capitol Times, ( Madison, Wisconsin) Friday Feb 19, 1999 by Adam Mertz.
 
Meuwisse is the Calgary Flames team doctor and a professor at the University
of Calgary. I discovered this source through my son's off-season trainer, who
is the trainer for the Phoenix Coyotes. I passed this information on to Mertz
who was able to contact Meuwisse on the phone for an interview and use the
information in an article on a Wisconsin Badger, who suffered his third
serious concussion in a 15 month period.
The following paragraphs come out of Mertz's article: "The Western Collegiate
Hockey Association, of which Wisconsin is a member is involved in an ongoing
medical study on concussions, wherein each team must report incidents to the
league and categorize the severity and effects.
 
The issue has become a common topic in hockey chat rooms in the internet;
Vicki Price the mother of a former University of Maine player now in the
minor leagues, operates a site entitled the "Concussion Free Zone"
(violentcontact.net) which promotes preventative measures and cites
statistics and medical realities about concussions.
And, due to a series of injuries to its marquee players over the past couple
years the NHL has paid heed as well."
 
 
 
Vicki Price
Concussion Free Zone
at violentcontact.net
 
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