A study of the sport injury and relative risk factors influence in NHL players

[[abstract]]The aim of this study was to analyze the injury pattern 30 teams 877 players from 2000~2008 in National Hockey League (NHL), and to identify the 5 variables age, NHL years, career year, shooting side preference (right or left) and position played between player?s number of injury and number of game miss due to injury. The study also included the number of injury for each body location. Based on the result of data, it was found that within the injury location, foot area has the highest rate of injury ( 18.21%), thigh (15.78%), neck (14.16%), upper body (13.80%), knee (11.86%), shoulder (10.18%), wrist (8.56%), lower body (3.99%), elbow (1.91%) and undisclosed (1.55%) are followed. Followed by these injury location, the highest rate of number of game miss due to injury was foot (20.53%), knee (15.35%), shoulder (15.01%), neck (11.80%), thigh (12.25%), neck (11.80%), wrist (9.93%), lower body (2.05%), elbow (1.40%) and undisclosed (0.43%). Data were analyzed using SPSS 15.0. Descriptive analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Scheffe Post-hoc test were conducted to this research. Findings from the study indicated that: A significant difference correlation of age (P=.000 < .01) was found among the number of injury and number of missed games due to injury. A significant difference correlation of player join NHL year was found among the number of injury (P=.003 < .05) and number of missed games due to injury (P=.000 < .01). A significant difference correlation of player?s career year (P=.000 < .01) was found among the number of injury and number of missed games due to injury. Non-significant difference correlation of player?s shoot preference was found among the number of injury (P=.372 > .05) and number of missed games due to injury (P=.116 > .05). A significant difference correlation of player?s position played was found among the number of injury (P=.000 < .01) and number of missed games due to injury (P=.001 < .01). II The finding that the results likely will enhance protection of players, thereby, the extent and nature of the injury problem needs to be clearly identified before effective measures aimed at preventing injury can be initiated