{"id":966,"date":"2013-03-12T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=966"},"modified":"2013-03-12T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:25:44","slug":"should-the-nhl-mandate-visors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/03\/12\/should-the-nhl-mandate-visors\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the NHL Mandate Visors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing debate regarding whether visors should be mandatory safety equipment in the National Hockey League (NHL) is likely to get some renewed attention after one of the\u00a0league&#8217;s players, Rangers\u2019 Marc Staal, suffered a serious eye injury in a recent game. Warning: don\u2019t watch the video if you are squeamish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/06\/eye-injury-to-ranger-raises-issue-of-helmet-visors-again\/?src=xps\">http:\/\/slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/06\/eye-injury-to-ranger-raises-issue-of-helmet-visors-again\/?src=xps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visors are currently optional in the NHL despite the league\u2019s ongoing support of a rule that would mandate their use. What\u2019s the holdup? It\u2019s the players union. The union\u2019s position\u00a0is that players should have the choice.<\/p>\n<p>This situation captures the tension that frequently exists between individual choice and population level benefit, a tension we frequently see in injury\u00a0prevention interventions and public health more broadly (Check out the legal battle over New York City&#8217;s ban on large sugar sweetened beverage). Should the NHL implement a rule mandating visors when the players themselves are not in favor of such a rule?<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing debate regarding whether visors should be mandatory safety equipment in the National Hockey League (NHL) is likely to get some renewed attention after one of the\u00a0league&#8217;s players, Rangers\u2019 Marc Staal, suffered a serious eye injury in a recent game. Warning: don\u2019t watch the video if you are squeamish. http:\/\/slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/06\/eye-injury-to-ranger-raises-issue-of-helmet-visors-again\/?src=xps Visors are currently optional [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/03\/12\/should-the-nhl-mandate-visors\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2733,241,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk-taking","category-sports-injury","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}