If you think that hockey is a soft and gentle sport you couldn’t be more wrong. So many injuries can happen to these athletes and they can even bring an end to the players’ careers. Injuries can occur to many parts of the body including knees, back, arms and legs. There are ten injuries that hockey players are prone to and they are:

Head trauma
Frostbite
Spinal cord injury
Lower back problems
Broken bones
Tendonitis
Neck strain
Broken teeth
Black eye

When injuries occur over and over again this can end a career very easily. It’s not just the end of a career either, there can be an immense amount of pain for many years after and in many cases physical therapy is required. This can be a truly horrible thing for these athletes who have career ending injuries and then they’re constantly in pain that can sometimes be unbearable which can make their lives hard to deal with. Therefore drugs are needed and this in iself is causing many problems.

A lot of the common knee injuries are fixed with shots of cortisone and the downside to this can be that the cartilage in the knee can be eroded which can be serious and result in full or partial knee replacement when it gets to be to the point that tearing begins to set in.

The surgeries these athletes get are really the most painful things around they may fix the problem.  But they can also cause pain to get worse over time to where it’s chronic and persistent.  However in saying that if you enjoy playing hockey you probably won’t be put off by this article as injuries are somthing that you are prepared to deal with.  Or perhaps you’ll just watch instead.  Hockey is a fantastic sport to watch and play and there are those who will do anything to enjoy it.