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The Safer Form of Hockey

(HealthScoutNews) -- What's safer, roller hockey or ice hockey?

University of Illinois researchers compared injury statistics from the two sports and found that the injury rate for roller hockey was actually slightly higher than for ice hockey: 139 injuries per 1000 games compared with 119 injuries per thousand games for ice skaters.

Ice hockey players were more likely to get cuts, while roller hockey players were more likely to get bruises.

And when an ice hockey player was injured, he usually missed about eight games, while an injured roller hockey player missed an average of seven.

 


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