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Mi. 24.04.13 - 10:37:54 game_misconduct    Registriert seit: September 2003 Posts: 15.286 |
Hockey icon Ken Dryden touts evolution of sport to prevent concussions By Natalie Stechyson, Calgary Herald April 23, 2013 The rules of sports can be changed to minimize the risk of concussions without sacrificing the excitement of the game for players and spectators, says hockey hall of famer Ken Dryden. Our games have already changed over time — hockey, for instance, has become faster, with more collisions happening at a greater force and between larger athletes — and the best way to protect athletes from sport concussions is to adapt to these changes by finding ways to minimize hits to the head, Dryden said. “If you allow some things to change and other things not to adapt to those changes, that’s when you get into a real mess,” Dryden said. “I think that decades from now, people will look back on us and in sports they’ll say ‘how could you not have gotten it? How did you not understand that there would be these kinds of consequences?’” Dryden, a former Montreal Canadiens goaltender who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983, spoke with the Herald on Monday in advance of two sports concussion and brain injury events he’s headlining in Calgary this week. On Monday evening, Dryden hosted a sports concussions forum at the University of Calgary. On Tuesday morning, he will be the keynote speaker at a fundraiser to benefit the Association of the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured. The issue of sports concussions is of particular importance, he said, but it’s time for the focus to shift from “awareness and problems” to “awareness and answers.” “This is an ongoing problem. This is not a run of bad luck, and so now it’s about finding ways of dealing with it as an ongoing problem,” Dryden said. “This is the most significant issue facing sports right now.” Last month, a new University of Calgary study released a set of updated guidelines around concussions in sport, concluding that helmets and mouth guards do nothing to prevent them and the quest for better equipment often backfires on players who think they’re protected and tend to take more risks. Instead, the more appropriate preventive action, the guidelines say, is to make changes to sporting rules that would minimize the incidence and severity of head trauma. The guidelines are based on the consensus of a 32-member panel of global experts, included in some of the updated recommendations for health-care providers. Late last month, the National Football League approved a rule change that will penalize players for helmet hits outside the tackle box. The answers to preventing sports concussions lie in exercises such as these, Dryden said. The beginning point has to come down to a mutual understanding that hits to the head are dangerous, Dryden said, and then finding ways of minimizing them and having rules of styles of play that reflect those changes. “I think there absolutely are answers to this, and our games can be played in ways that are just as exciting to play and just as exciting to watch, and that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t be different in some way or another,” he said. Calgary Herald Artikel |
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