Study Shows Rule Limiting Tackling During High School Football Practices...
Limiting the amount of full-contact tackling during high school football practices can have a big impact on reducing the number of concussions among players, new research finds. A University of...
View ArticleBanning Soccer Heading In Youth Soccer: Will It Make The Sport Safer?
Lest you thought that the November 2015 announcement by a group of national and state youth soccer organizations of a ban on heading in soccer age 10 and below and limits on heading in practice for...
View ArticlePediatrics Group's Position on Tackling in Youth Football Strikes Right Balance
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) endorsed efforts to limit contact practices in youth football, but declined to make a clear recommendation in favor of delaying the age at which...
View ArticlePrevention, Not Litigation, Should Be Primary Strategy For Youth Sports...
Brooke de Lench, Founding Executive Director of the Moms Team Institute of Youth Sports Safety, hits the target when she calls concussions "the predominant youth sports safety issue of the 21st...
View ArticleHelmetless Tackling and Blocking Drills Lead to Decreased Head Impacts in...
Engaging in a 5-minute helmetless tackling drill twice a week during pre-season football and once a week during the season reduced by almost a third the frequency of impacts to the head over the...
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Youth Ice Hockey Safety Tips
Risks And Types Of InjuryEach year, almost 87,000 hockey-related injuries to youths under age 15 are treated in hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and hospital emergency...
View ArticleHigh School and Pop Warner Football: Preventing Concussion, Serious Injury Or...
The National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research suggests the following four measures to reduce or prevent serious injury (concussion, traumatic brain injury, spinal paralysis) or death in...
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Repetitive Head Impacts: A Major Concern At All Levels of Sports
UPDATED Brain trauma among football players (and athletes in other sports such as soccer and ice hockey) may be less the result of violent collisions that cause concussions as the cumulative effect...
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Seven Ways To Reduce Risk of Traumatic Brain Injury In Sports
UPDATED There is mounting evidence that traumatic brain injury to youth and high school athletes in contact and collision sports can result not only from a single violent hit but from the cumulative...
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Is There A "Head Count" for Soccer?
A 2013 study linking frequent heading of a soccer ball with changes to the white matter of the brain and poorer performance on a neurocognitive test of memory [1] added fuel to the fire of a...
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