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Hockey culture blamed for blindness to concussion

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In hockey, the incidence of concussion seems to grow with every study on the subject.

This week a group out of Burlington has released a study which shows that while the number of concussions over a single season are significantly higher than expected, it’s the willful blindness to reality may be doing the most damage. This study out of the Elliot Sports Medicine Clinic followed two Canadian university teams for a full season – one men’s and one women’s. They found that the number of unreported concussions were high and it might be due to the culture of the game, not a lack of medical expertise. Sean Leathong explains.

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