NHL players losing more time on concussions: study

Players in the NHL lost an average of 10 days of game time in one-third of the cases of concussion from 1997 to 2004, a new study finds.

The study of the Canadian Medical Association Journal shows Monday injuries for seven regular seasons of NHL was capped. It also made the clinical signs and symptoms that predicts the players being the ice for more time.

Researchers at the University of Calgary analyze the most recent data of the NHL.

In the study published, predictors of off-ice time included:

Headache.low energy or fatigue.Loss of memory.Abnormal neurological examination.

"Our results indicate that there was a trend towards a progressive increase in the loss of afflicted time during the study period," said author principal Dr. Brian Benson, a researcher and a doctor at the Centre of sports medicine in the Faculty of the University of Calgary of Kinesiology.

"A trend that we have seen that, although the number of concussions were leveled during the study period, the amount of the loss of time seems to gradually increase over the years, which may be an indication of the greater severity or greater caution in the treatment" he added in a press release.""

The study raised concussion repeat as a problem, noting loss of typical time in days increased 2.25 times the period of study for each recurring concussion.

Specifically, the study focused on the 559 concussions suffered by players of the NHL in regular season games, based on reports from doctors of each team in the League.

Among those who lost of time, 31% of concussions led to players more missing for 10 days of competition.

In 11 per cent of these cases of loss of time, players had continued to play and then later said the symptoms to the medical staff after the match. The symptoms of the players of degree of the NHL among those who regularly plays of the time because of a concussion. CMAJ

There was a 1.8 concussions estimated 1,000 hours of game time, the researcher found.

"Our results also suggest that measures more conservatives or precaution should be taken in the immediate period of affliction, particularly when an athlete reports or experiments afflicted headache, low energy or fatigue, amnesia, concussion recurrent or many different symptoms afflicted.", or when the athlete has an abnormal neurological examination, "the authors of the study has concluded."

During the study period, concussion rate has decreased from a peak of 7.7 concussions by 100 players in the season 2000-2001 to 4.9 by 100 players in 2003-2004.

Researchers said they hope that the findings will provide specific practical information for physicians of the team on concussion signs and symptoms that could point to the potentially more serious concussions.

Since program concussion by the League and its players Union have evolved over the seven years of the study period, only the signs, symptoms and physical examination results which matched a season to another were included.

The League has faced calls to more severe penalties, most recently following the Zdeno Chara on Max Pacioretty hit last month that caused a severe concussion and fractured neck, and concussion of Sidney Crosby in January.

In March, the NHL announced new rules of concussion, as requiring trainers perform a quick test with players in a quiet area.

NHL decision Monday not to suspend the Vancouver Canucks before Raffi Torres after his success on the Chicago Blackhawks defenceman Brent Seabrook shows a related debate among the audience on what is considered to be a head shot has not been settledsaid Hockey Night in Canada Scott Morrison.

The professional way play hockey is imitated in junior hockey, according to the authors of a second study appearing in the same issue that calls for body failure eliminated except for hockey aged 16 years and already elite players.

"The fact is that the vast majority of concussions and injuries of hockey on the whole, at all levels of play, is caused by the legal body failed implementation," wrote Dr. Syd Johnson of Dalhousie University in Halifax.

"It is time to break this cycle and teach young people to play in a way that focuses on the skills and protects their brains, so they will be prepared to do the same when they grow up," concluded Johnson.

Up to 25 per cent of all players of junior hockey in a single season has suffered concussions, a recent study suggests.

Approximately 500,000 young people in the Canada play hockey in organized leagues. Hockey players only one of 4 000 young people makes it to the Professional League, according to Hockey Canada, central organ of the country for youth hockey.

In view of these ratings, Johnson argues that it is not useful to submit as many young players to high risk of injury.

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