Olivia Aguiar

Study examines player safety in hockey games

Written by: Mahdi Dialden, News Writer SFU PhD student Olivia Aguiar and her team at the Injury Prevention and Mobility Laboratory have conducted research on the impact of physical incidents amongst the SFU men’s hockey team. The project began in 2014, and Aguiar joined as part of her graduate studies in 2017. The aim was to attend SFU men’s university-level hockey games and record hits throughout the games.  In an interview with The Peak, Aguiar explained their process: “We set up cameras around the rink, so we [were] recording what’s going on simultaneously with the game camera, and [captured] head-impact…

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