Accessible pathway
Use every session: ice duration, session RPE, exposure type, role, hockey demand, symptoms before/during/24 hours later, confidence, contact status, and shared decision.
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Return to Game Readiness Calculator
Use alongside the clinician toolkit after clearance for full practice. The calculator supports discussion; it does not create medical, contact or game clearance.
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Return to Game Readiness Calculator
This calculator mirrors the worksheet logic from the Return to Game Readiness clinician toolkit. It calculates session dose, optional Edwards-style TRIMP, TRIMP per minute, weekly totals, and recent-to-prior context. It does not create medical, contact, or game clearance.
Source-of-truth rules used here:
sRPE load = ice minutes x session RPE.
Zone-weighted TRIMP uses the Edwards-style five-zone example from the toolkit.
Recent:prior uses current 7-day TRIMP divided by the mean of the previous four completed weeks, only when the same method was used.
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Session exposure
Enter the current hockey exposure. Required dose fields come first. Add HR fields only when the capture and method are reliable.
HR
Optional HR-informed pathway
Use this only when the HR device, HRmax, zones, platform, and TRIMP method are consistent.
The toolkit's Edwards-style example uses weights 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The 80-89% zone crosses the 85% threshold, so minutes above 85% should come from the monitor export, not from this broad zone split.
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12-week TRIMP trend
Enter weekly totals. The recent-to-prior calculation stays blank until four prior completed weeks use the same TRIMP method.
| Week | Sessions | Ice min | sRPE AU | TRIMP AU | Min >85% | Data status | Clinical response / hockey context |
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Shared progression decision
Complete after reviewing current exposure, personal reference, recovery, confidence, contact, and hockey context.
Stop and assess flags
Select any finding that should stop automatic progression and prompt clinical reassessment.
Clinical boundary:
Use this after medical clearance for full practice while unrestricted competition remains pending. Contact clearance, game clearance, and return to performance remain separate. Agreement never overrides a contraindication, restriction, or individualized clinical judgment.
Clinician Workflow
Late-stage guidance for the gap between practice clearance and game clearance.
This workflow keeps contact clearance, game clearance, and return to performance separate while the athlete builds and demonstrates readiness.
01Confirm scope
Clearance, contact, restrictions
02Build reference
Healthy practice, game, week
03Log exposure
Dose, response, HR if reliable
04Describe gap
Athlete's own hockey demands
05Share decision
Progress, repeat, modify, assess
Monitoring Model
Accessible first. HR-informed when reliable.
Heart-rate data can add context, but it does not establish tissue readiness, maximal-speed exposure, contact dose, technical quality, psychological readiness, or game clearance.
HR-informed pathway
Add average and peak HR, minutes above 85% of verified HRmax, platform TRIMP or zone-weighted TRIMP, TRIMP/min, capture quality, and same-method confirmation.
Use numbers as context
Recent-to-prior calculations summarize training history. Do not use them as injury predictors, safe-zone rules, progression targets, or clearance thresholds.
Response still governs
Stop and reassess for new swelling, instability, neurologic or cardiopulmonary symptoms, systemic illness, or a response that does not return to expected baseline.
Clinical use note:
These resources are general education for qualified clinicians. They are not a diagnosis-specific protocol and are not a substitute for individualized clinical judgment, medical clearance, team policy, or shared decision-making.