Friday, May 13, 2011

CANADA - Hockey players are headed household

Ice hockey is no shortage of statistics: Goals, assists, penalty minutes, etc.. This is now a new slew of statistical indicators. They come this time of a study just published on concussions in the National Hockey League (NHL). Le Devoir, which relays the information, said that the data were collected for seven seasons.

First observation, hockey players tend to ignore symptoms Postcommotional. Among the most frequent headache (71%), dizziness (34%) and nausea (24%), which does not always prevent them from restarting play Another aspect of the study, the duration of unavailability of players following the shock.

Players take longer to recover and longer absences from the game if they combine the shots. Brian Benson, the principal leader of the study, says that when the players are alert to early signs of a concussion, they return more quickly to the game They take on average six days to recover, against ten days for those who ignore symptoms.

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