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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Hard-hitting sports like football and men's hockey continue to have the highest injury rates, and contact is even the primary cause of injury in less-physical sports, a study of 16 years of NCAA data found.
Women's ice hockey, for example, does not allow the body checking permitted in the men's hockey, but about half the injuries in women's hockey came from contact with another player. Concussions were the most common injury in games and practices.
"They're not falling down and getting these concussions," said Randall Dick, one of the study's authors and associate director of research for the NCAA.
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