Epidemiology of Injuries in Elite Female Ice Hockey Players Allowed Body Checking: A Two‐Year Prospective Cohort Study
Amanda Lahti, Emelie Stenman, Stefan Kauppinen, Anton Grundberg, Kristina Sundquist · 2026
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Amanda Lahti and four co-authors track injuries in elite women's ice hockey after body checking was allowed, in a 2026 study. In 2022 the Swedish women's league became the first in the world to permit checking. That change raised fair worry about harm. The study logged game injuries over the next two seasons.
Forty-six game injuries were logged. Checking was the top single cause, and concussion was the top injury type, at about a fifth of cases. Most injuries came in the third period, many late in games. In over a third of cases, the hurt player kept playing. The authors urge care in reading small counts, but back tight injury tracking.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Amanda Lahti, Emelie Stenman, Stefan Kauppinen, Anton Grundberg, Kristina Sundquist |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |