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Exeter Times -Advocate
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Is your favourite sport dangerous?
Sport accidents per 1000
Water Skiing
260.84
Lacrosse
223.79
Wrestling
36.46
Rugby
31.21
Football
30.17
Baseball
28.42
Hockey
21.92
Basketball
19.76
Soccer
12.59
Boxing
11.34
Bicycle Riding
11.71
Gymnastics
10.49
Volleyball
4.03
Ice Skating
3.83
Snowmobiling
3.52
Snow Skiing
2.99
Racquetball
2.77
Tennis
2.77
Handball
1.92
Fishing
1.43
Swimming
1.34
Golf
1.22
Archery
0.85
Boating
0.75
Bowling
0.47
Paintball
0.24
EXETER - Every sport
has the potential to be
dangerous. Many factors
play into the severity of
sport injuries, including
the equipment, the rules
and the actual sport itself.
This article will explore
and expose the dangers
accompanied by two pop-
ular local sports - hockey
and paintball.
From its humble begin-
nings in 1981, paintball
has experienced exponen-
tial growth and is now
played in approximately
200 countries by over
11,600,000 participants,
mainly due to the fact that
paintball is a sport
enjoyed by people from all
professions and lifestyles.
It is a strong character
building sport that teaches
the importance of team-
work and self-confidence.
Ice hockey is one of the
most popular team sports
in many parts of the coun-
try. It is a fast -paced game
that combines players of
many sizes together on the
rink with high skating
speeds and fast, furious
action. Hockey is known
as a hard-hitting collision
sport, where players risk
injury from high impact
collisions with each other,
the rigid boards and the
goal posts. Impact with a
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(photo/Scott Nixon)
skate blade, long sticks,
and pucks traveling more
than 100 MPH also add to
the risk.
Statistically speaking,
paintball is a safe sport; in
fact chances are you have
already played a sport
that is more dangerous.
Nevertheless, you are
probably thinking getting
shot must really hurt. In
reality it tends to sting a
bit and leave a welt, but it
is usually no worse than
the bumps, bruises, and
scratches people get doing
other things.
The National Injury
Information Clearinghouse
of the U. S. Consumer
Product Safety
Commission has provided
injury estimates through
use of the National
Electronic Injury
Surveillance System, and
found the number of esti-
mated injuries per 1,000
participants in a variety of
sports. As you can see,
paintball has the lowest
injury percentage out of
all the sports, fewer than
one person out of every
4,000 who plays paintball
will end up having to go to
the doctor for a paintball
related injury. This is 88
times fewer than hockey
injuries. Plus these statis-
tics include things like
ankle sprains or scratches
from falling in the woods,
not just injuries directly
related to paintball.
Studies show most hockey
injuries occur during
games rather than prac-
tices. It is estimated that
direct trauma accounts for
80 per cent of all injuries.
Most of these injuries are
caused by player contact,
falls and contact with a
puck, high stick, and occa-
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Industry standards like
paintball masks, barrel
plugs and limits on paint -
ball marker velocities help
prevent injuries. Masks
are necessary to protect
the eyes and face. Barrel
plugs are used to prevent
an injury through an acci-
dental missfire. Lastly
paintball markers are
chronographed to keep
velocities below 300 feet
per second.
Similar to the paintball
mask, the hockey helmet
and face shield have
reduced the incidence of
injuries to the face and
head. Nevertheless there
has been an increase in
hockey injuries in the past
decade, especially to the
neck and spine. Some
hockey players may adopt
a false sense of security,
believing they are not sus-
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wearing protective equip-
ment. Usually that's when
injuries occur - when you
least expect them.
Paintball has proven
itself to be a safe and
enjoyable sport when
played by the rules and
with the proper safety
equipment. Rules and
safety equipment are also
important to reducing the
dangers of hockey, but
due to the physical nature
of the sport it is much
more dangerous.
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- The above story
comes from South Huron
District High School's
Grade 11/12
Communications class,
which will be writing sto-
ries for the Times -
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