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Concussions

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Does anyone know of a site that has statistics on concussions over the past few years?

I'd also like to see this as well as statistics on the accuracy of concussion diagnosis. While concussions appear to be up, some amount of that increase is likely attributable to increases in concussion detection.

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I haven't "seen" stats, but I have heard that there have been, so far, about 80 concussions this season. Not sure stats from prior years, but I understand that the nubmer is up signficantly.

It's up for various reasons, 3 of which would be:

- better detection - this is a no brainer, it wasn't that long ago that no one really knew what a concussion was, someone would get their bell rung, they'd throw up on the bench, get some smelling salts and go back out to play....some retired players now suffer from lingering effects of concussions they've endured that went undetectd.

- faster game - players are not only bigger and faster, the game itself has opened up in terms of speed...there's no clutch and grab to slow players down. People think of the 80s as wide open, run and gun, which it was, but it was a much slower game. There was tons of hooking and holding back then, the reason for the offense wasn't lack of hooking and holding, it was more to do with less defensive schemes being employed and less skilled goalies, smaller equipment, etc.

- equipment - hard shoulder pas and elbow pads are killer...

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They are actually gradually moving towards referring to these injuries as "brain injuries"

Does that make is less annoying for you?

i would rather talk about HOCKEY instead of focusing on a minor part of the sport

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