title: Aspects of traumatology in ice hockey.
abstract: Ice hockey is the fastest team game played and is also considered to be one of the roughest of all sports, with a high injury incidence. Injuries and their causes were recorded by the questioning of players in the first league of the Federal Republic of Germany. Eighty-eight out of a total of 207 first league players were included in this study. Head injuries were found to occur most frequently: however, lesions of the shoulders and of the upper and lower extremities had a more detrimental effect. The links between causes and mechanisms of the different kinds of injuries make it clear that a marked tightening of the rules and an improvement in protective clothing would serve to reduce the incidence of injuries in ice hockey.
authors.affiliation: Staatliche Orthopädische Klinik München, West Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pförringer
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Smasal
mesh_terms: D001134:Arm Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000453:epidemiology; D004867:Equipment Design; D006688:Hockey; D006801:Humans; D007869:Leg Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D000070599:Shoulder Injuries; D013177:Sports