Grassroots: The Minor Hockey Show

Episode 82 - Wherefore bodychecking?


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In the last few months, two Canadian research studies have concluded that bodychecking in hockey should not begin till age 18, when kids are out of minor hockey. One of those studies, headed by the renowned brain injury and concussion expert, Dr. Charles Tator, reached some startling conclusions about long term concussion symptoms. The other study was completed by researchers in Alberta with teenagers in various minor hockey organizations.  And so in this episode, Richard and Dean ask if it's time the question not just be posed but also answered: what are we doing?


Links to the two studies:

Persisting Concussion Symptoms from Bodychecking: Unrecognized Toll in Boys' Ice Hockey


Bodychecking experience and rates of injury among ice hockey players aged 15–17 years


Hockey Canada Checking Progression

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Dean Holden: [email protected]

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