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Children and adolescents are more likely to sustain a traumatic brain injury than adults, it has been claimed.

This is the view of Jeff Deits, lead author of a study into the incidence rate of injuries in ice hockey in the US.

He said that the recent focus on traumatic brain injuries in children has been "very appropriate".

The study found that concussions were more common among ice hockey players under the age of 18 years (nine per cent of all injuries), than in adult players, where blows to the head accounted for just 3.7 per cent of the injuries in this age group.

Co-author of the study Sarah Fields suggested banning body-checking in children's, or pee-wee, leagues would be one way to limit accidents.

"If we could eliminate checking in pee-wee leagues, we think it would reduce the number of emergency department visits for kids in those leagues," she said.

A recent study from Canada found that brain injuries were less in pee-wee leagues where body-checking is banned.

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