Sentences with phrase «field hockey injuries»

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People playing field hockey do cry a lot, though more often from their injuries than from frustration.

Soccer has a higher injury rate than many contact / collision sports such as field hockey, rugby, basketball, and football, with players younger than age 15 at higher relative injury risk compared with older players, concludes a clinical report in the journal Pediatrics.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

Some concussion experts, including Dr. Robert Cantu (4), believe that helmets should be mandated in girls» lacrosse, as well as in field hockey, a sport in which the rules prohibit sticks above the knee but in which concussions, eye injuries, lacerations, broken noses and more also occur.

Effectiveness of Protective Eyewear in Reducing Eye Injuries Among High School Field Hockey Players.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.