Teaching coaches about injury prevention and contact restrictions pays off, say researchers who tracked injury rates
among youth football players during the 2014 season.
Kontos P, Fazio V, Burkart S, Swindell H, Marron J, Collins M. Incidence of Sport - Related Concussion
among Youth Football Players Aged 8 - 12 Years.
Not exact matches
Beginning in the fall of 2012, the Virginia Tech and Wake Forest researchers began collecting more data on impacts
among the
youth football population by putting hit sensors in the helmets of over 300
youth football players from ages 6 to 18 in a program they are dubbing KIDS (Kinematics of Impact Data Set).
Professional hockey
players, along with
youth, collegiate and amateur
players of
football, hockey, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, boxing and rugby were
among those studied.
A better approach to reducing concussions in
youth football may be to focus on awareness and education
among youth football administrators, coaches, parents, and
players.