Feb 27, 2015 | Design, Helmets, Medical, Prevention
…helmets used in youth football have historically been scaled-down “little adult” versions of varsity helmets. Therefore, scaling down varsity football helmets fails to consider youth players’ impact conditions, developing spinal musculature, maturing brain, and...
Feb 27, 2015 | Medical, Prevention
High school football players suffer three times as many catastrophic injuries as college players — meaning deaths, permanent disability injuries, neck fractures and serious head injuries, among other conditions, according to a 2007 study in the American Journal of...
Feb 27, 2015 | Medical, Prevention
In an interview with the Dallas Morning News, former Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett said of his Chronic Traumatic Ecephalopathy (CTE), “I signed up for this when, I guess, I started playing football so many years ago. But, obviously, not knowing that...
Feb 27, 2015 | Prevention
I feel that concussions can be “prevented” in practice with contact limits and proper technique during drills. The other two incidents, thus far, I deemed preventable occurred in practices and were concussions. One player was hit by a teammate during a non-contact...
