There’s no question that hockey players are among the world’s toughest athletes. If anyone needed any reminding of this, a great example was provided by Gregory Campbell of the Boston Bruins in last year’s Stanley Cup play-offs. While killing a penalty, Campbell dove to block a slap shot from two time NHL scoring champion Evgeni Malkin. The impact of the speeding puck broke his leg instantly. Campbell got back up and finished the shift. Can one imagine a soccer player reacting in such a manner? Or how would a badminton player respond to breaking a bone in mid-play? My purpose in singling out these two sports is not to pick on these athletes. I single out these sports only because there are actually scientific studies that have found soccer players and badminton players have “tougher” bones than hockey players. In this case the more accurate term than “tougher” is “higher bone mineral density”. Bone mineral density (BMD) is a measure of the amount of minerals (like
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