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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the people comparing this to biking and skiing that is ridiculous - there are many fatalities in both of those activities, I have yet to hear of a death by figure skating.  Sure they can bump their head, but they can do that in most any sport or physical activity.  Wear them or don’t but don’t compare dissimilar risk levels [/quote]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8175818/Ice-skating-injury-leads-to-death

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1123863/Young-woman-ice-skater-dies-freak-fall-rink.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16882806

RESULTS:

An estimated 1 235 467 pediatric skating participants presented to hospital emergency departments with injuries between 1993 and 2003. These children had a mean age of 10.9 years (SD: 3.2 years; range: 1-18 years), and 50.0% were male. The most common mechanism of injury was a fall (83.1%).[b] Ice skaters sustained a greater proportion of head injuries[/b] (13.3%), compared with roller skaters (4.4%) and in-line skaters (5.0%). [b]Ice skaters also experienced a greater proportion of concussions (4.3%), compared with roller skaters (0.6%) and in-line skaters (0.8%). The proportion of facial injuries among ice skaters was greater than the proportions among roller skaters and in-line skaters. [/b]The majority of roller skating-and in-line skating-related injuries were upper-extremity fractures (53.9% and 59.7%, respectively). Children < or = 6 years of age experienced a greater proportion of head and facial injuries than did older children in each skating activity.

CONCLUSIONS:

The epidemiologic features of pediatric ice skating-related injuries differ from those of roller skating--and in-line skating-related injuries. [b]Children should wear helmets during all recreational skating activities, especially ice skating, because of the risk of serious head injuries. [/b]Wrist guards should be worn to protect against the common upper-extremity fractures sustained during skating.[/quote]

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