Category: Personal Injury

Darren Cossar, Executive Director of Hockey Nova Scotia, has announced that the organization has approved a new policy to address concussions in children playing minor hockey.

The Globe & Mail reported Cossar as saying: “We’ve finalized concussion policy for return to play…the onus is on the coach that any player who is suspected of having a concussion has to be examined by a doctor before returning to play.”

Hockey Canada recently released the results of the Hockey Concussion Education Project which revealed a frequency of concussion in minor hockey that was 7x higher then previously thought. The authors of the report called concussions an “epidemic”.

It looks like amateur sports are finally starting to get the message. Concussions are serious injuries that can have permanent and lasting consequences.

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According to a medical study released in Toronto on Monday, 25% of junior hockey players on the two teams that were the subject of the study suffered concussions (minor traumatic brain injuries) last year.

One of the co-authors of this study, Dr. Paul Echlin called the results “alarming”.

Multiple Injuries

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Children Vulnerable to Head Injury

Children do not lose consciousness as easily as adults. Because they don’t get “knocked out” as often as adults, a myth developed that children did not suffer brain injury as easily or as often adults.

Another myth about children and brain injury is that children are more resilient than adults and that they recover or “bounce back” faster after a traumatic brain injury.

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