This comes from an article in the American Journal of Sports Medicine,
July-August 1997 issue.
 
This is a summary for incidence of injury in practices and games at different
levels.
 Level                Age             Practice           Game
 
squirt                9-10             1.2               00.0
peewee                11-12            2.2               00.0
bantam                13-14            2.5               10.9
high school           15-19            0.2               34.4
junior A              17-19            3.9               96.1
intercollegiate       18-21            2.3               84.3
swedish elite         19-33            1.4               74.1
 
"The incidence in injury can be attributed to the increase in size and speed
as players mature and to the rules and equipment used at different levels of
participation (e.g. halfshield facial protection can be worn by players over
18 in Junior A but not in college hockey players). Recent studies examined
the effect of mandatory use of face masks on facial lacerations and head and
neck injuries in ice hockey and found that the full face mask reduced facial
lacerations compared with previous studies and did not increase head and neck
injuries. Although there are no published comparative studies on facial
protection to date (1997)
that used a concurrent control group, LaPrade et al strongly recommended full
facial protection to guard against chin lacerations and dental injuries."
 
74.1% of high school injuries occur from:
Collisions 33.3%
collision into the boards 39.6%
collision on the ice 11.1%
 
 
P.S. I hope the columns are straight.
 
 
Vicki Price
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