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Although hockey injuries have been making the news lately, skiing and snowboarding injuries are more than twice as common, according to new data released today by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Number of hospitalizations due to winter sports and recreational activities, by age group and gender, 2006-07, 2010-11
Male

10-19
F

12

101

192 2,645 57 221 678 920 3,171 183 666 146 208

20-29
F

937

30-39
42
F

711

40-49
33
F

658

50-59
10
F

234 N/R 84

60+ years TOTAL

F M

5,721 4,363

89

80

134 345

258 430

326 507 551 819

368 316 345 266 571

Skiing/Snowboarding 149 227 Snowmobiling Tobogganing

33 151 54 197

770 2,062 432 891

663 410 537 12,173 320 6,075 1,031

205 1,183 204 1,058 204 1,085 142 613 64 58 57 44 35 44 35 18 19

N/R N/R

Ontario saw a total of 45,270 emergency department visits in 20102011 due to winter sports and activities. That averages out to 285 visits for every day of winter.

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In 20102011, 415 Canadians were hospitalized for head injuries related to a winter sport or recreational activity; this number has remained relatively stable since 20062007.

2010-11 hospitalizations
6,000

Skiing/ Snowboarding 5,000

Ice hockey injuries on the decline

2006-07

(135) of these serious head injuries occurred while skiing or snowboarding. Over the past ve years, a total of 759 head injury hospitalizations were related to ski hill activities in Canada.

2,329

4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0

Hockey Ice skating

1,114

1,221

Half of all hospitalizations during 20102011 for hockey injuries (542 out of 1,114) were for people age 10 to 19.

889

Snowmobiling

1,126

Number of hospitalizations

70%
50 and older

2009-10

were among those

2010-11

1,188

60 and older
2,200 1,344
60-69 70+

About half of all falls occurred in people age

2007-08 2008-09

1,099 1,099

1,114

Tobagganing

Number of hospitalizations due Taking a fall to falls on ice 2011- 20-29 Falls on ice were by far the most common cause Age group 10-19 415 0-9 of injuries 7,138 hospital admissions in
20102011, more than for all winter sports and recreational activities combined.

171

40-49 30-39

1,471

50-59

937

571

55

145

56%

of those hospitalized for falls on ice were

women.

Sources: Canadian Institute for Health Information

SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY LINDSAY OUELLETTE/QMI AGENCY