Sentences with phrase «as a contact sport»

Football is sometimes referred to as a contact sport, but aren't all sports contact sports?

BTW: The late Stephen H Schneider has a really interesting story to tell about this in his book «Science as a contact sport» (National Geographic Society, 2009) He did some modelling on the climatic effects of a thermonuclear war, and found that it would probably not lead to as much cooling as Carl Sagan thought.

Recreational activities, such as contact sports and diving in shallow water, cause about 8 percent of spinal cord injuries.

Not exact matches

Churchians think that we go from being addicted to social contact, remaining deaf, dumb, and blind to heavenly things until the day we die, and then we suddenly don white robes, sport halos, and play harps as we dance from could to cloud, WITHOUT an intervening process that Paul called «transformation.»

As his fellow sports star Martina Navratilova has noted, Johnson's public acceptance was guaranteed once he clarified this little detail about his sexual contacts.

If you picked a sport without that direct physical contact... such as swimming or running, then I would say let the girls compete if they like.

Football its a sport with sports you have injuries add to that its contact sport so the probability of getting injured is sure Ok I can understand luck and ball wobble has got something to do with it but as a soccer player you know you could get injured just like that two or more players are going for the ball you could be sandwiched you could instantly hit the same ball one gets injured both get injured what ever but injury is part of the game some go away pretty easy some do nt and can get aggravated because not all can wait in a in a heavy box for too long and if you do well you become weak so it will take some effort to get back to full strength praying that you do nt get a strain or muscular problem players mangers coaches and physician know that i know that because not long ago i had bad thigh injury all was fine with it then i got a knock just below my knee 3 weeks ago and there is still slight pain in it but will try and play on Thursday thats part of the game The manager has to account for it in his head i got 11 players 6 might go down my contingency if it were to happen is and you still got a fully balanced team well thats the essence and Arsenal all fall because that contingency plan always falls short

You lots talk a lot of bollocks.i read ozil sustained the injury during but not before the chelsea match.i do nt know where this immature opinion that wenger is the cause or that our new fitness coach is incompetent is coming from.futbol is a contact sport and as such injuries are bound to happen but to now pin it on wenger or the fitness coach is ridiculous.

During football games tempers will flare up, as it will in most contact sports.

Football is scene as very much a contact sport (in Argentina its a bloody war of attrition), and tussles are a natural part of the game.

«I played only contact sports growing up and never gave golf a look,» says Stallings's son Marcus, a 28 - year - old Army satellite communications specialist who was wearing a Baltimore Ravens jersey as he took his drives.

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No one man is ever again likely to develop as many different ground - floor sports connections as Art Sr. «It's amazing the depth of his contacts,» says Harness Tracks of America President Ed Dougherty.

Im not suggesting that we encourage aggressive behaviour but its a contact sport and the opposition need to be physically intimidated as well as out played and we don't have anyone who appears to do that.

Multi-directional sports require the athlete be stable in multiple planes of motion, as well as be prepared for physical contact with other athletes.

In the event that you partake in any sort of physical or contact sports, wearing a mouthguard is really not only sensible, but truly important to your wellbeing and can give a lot of peace of mind when you're playing sports such as football, rugby, MMA and many other fighting based sports.

The Scotland captain, 30, has been contacted by Valencia's sporting director in recent weeks over testing himself in La Liga, as confirmed to Aas confirmed to ASAS.

Their was contact, but admittantly a dive by Eduardo, but as a sporting contest the incident beared little relevance to the overall result.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (February 12, 2007)-- In its continuing emphasis on illegal helmet - to - helmet contact in high school football such as spearing, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Football Rules Committee reorganized and clarified several rules with the intention of further reducing the risk of head injuries, such, as concussions, in the sport.

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

Despite increased awareness about concussions in recent years, some of those involved in contact and collision sports still don't seem as concerned as they should be about the risks.

Head injuries in football, as in other contact and collision sports, can not be completely eliminated, but there ARE steps that can be taken to minimize risk.

As a result, only time will tell whether they will fulfill the promise that many in the concussion community see them as having, although I, for one, think they will eventually revolutionize the way in which athletes are identified for remove - from - play screening on the sports sideline, among other uses, and, within five years, are likely to be standard equipment for all contact and collision sportAs a result, only time will tell whether they will fulfill the promise that many in the concussion community see them as having, although I, for one, think they will eventually revolutionize the way in which athletes are identified for remove - from - play screening on the sports sideline, among other uses, and, within five years, are likely to be standard equipment for all contact and collision sportas having, although I, for one, think they will eventually revolutionize the way in which athletes are identified for remove - from - play screening on the sports sideline, among other uses, and, within five years, are likely to be standard equipment for all contact and collision sports.

Soccer has a higher injury rate than many contact / collision sports such as field hockey, rugby, basketball, and football, with players younger than age 15 at higher relative injury risk compared with older players, concludes a clinical report in the journal Pediatrics.

As such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - and some helmet manufacturers who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant widespread use in contact and collision sports.

Because the Maddocks questions can be asked by anyone, they are valuable on sports sidelines where no health care professional trained in performing a full sideline screening for concussion, such as doctor or certified athletic trainer, is present, as is often the case in contact and collision sports involving younger athletes.

As such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - as well as some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sportAs such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - as well as some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sportas well as some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sportas some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sports.

A straightforward, elegantly written, concise, and well - organized 215 pages, Back in the Game stands out in a crowded field, not just as a primer on concussions for a parent, coach, or athletes, but for its incisive and often pointed criticism of the way our national conversation about concussions and the long - term effects of playing contact and collision sports has been shaped - some would say warped - by a media that too often eschews fact - based reporting in favor of sensationalism and fear - mongering.

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports talks about and the role of protective headgear in reducing the risk of concussion and the difference between concussions, which occur as a result of contact between a player's head and a hard object (another player's head, the ground or the goalpost), and the kinds of brain injuries which can occur as a result of repeated heading of a soccer ball.

There are no studies that show a statistically significant increase in the likelihood of CTE simply from playing football or other contact or collision sport, and none, as far as I know, are even in the research pipeline, but those who say it is too early to connect the dots, well, their voices are being drowned out by those who suggest exactly that.

That the game officials were apparently complicit is a bit of a surprise, although, given the recent trend towards lax rules enforcement in other contact and collision sports, particularly hockey, I that it has surfaced in youth football shouldn't come as a shock, I guess.

The Sports Concussion Institute estimates that between 5 - 10 % of all athletes will experience a concussion during a given season and those numbers increase for contact sports such as football and sSports Concussion Institute estimates that between 5 - 10 % of all athletes will experience a concussion during a given season and those numbers increase for contact sports such as football and ssports such as football and soccer.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomsports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomsports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomSports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

A March 2013 review of current risk - reduction strategies in the British Journal of Sports Medicine [11] reminds state high school athletic associations and legislatures that, in enacting rules, such as limits on full - contact practices, they «need to carefully consider potential injury «trade - offs» associated with the implementation of injury - prevention strategies, because every change may have certain advantages and disadvantages.

As a result, an increasing number of experts are urging that the focus be on reducing the risk of concussions and sub-concussive brain trauma by reducing exposure to concussive and sub-concussive hits [24] that athletes sustain during contact and collision sports.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

Head trauma and participation in contact sports as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease.

Mouth guards are especially crucial during contact sports such as football, hockey or boxing, where blows to the body and face are regular occurrences.

IF YOU PLAY sport, you know that training can be just as painful as it is fun, especially when you play contact sports such as rugby or American football.

Less is known about the consequences of participating in contact sports where body - to - body contact is permitted, but is not purposeful, such as soccer, basketball and field hockey.

He said this study fills an important gap in understanding how contact affects healthy brains, as a step toward better understanding why a small number of athletes in contact sports show negative long - term health consequences.

Since the mayor has gone public with the criticism, the governor, a shrewd tactician who aides acknowledge plays politics as a full - contact sport, brushed aside the complaint while working overtime to cozy up to a cadre of lawmakers.

The team contacted state agencies to obtain a measure of sport fishing effort, measured as angler hours.

Cross-cultural data show that prehomosexual boys are more attracted to solitary sports such as swimming, cycling and tennis than they are to rougher contact sports such as football and soccer; they are also less likely to be childhood bullies.

«As a premier research university and NCAA Division I school, TU is committed to studying the effect of contact sports on the brain,» Polanski said.

«But what we found was our athletes with ADHD were twice as likely to compete in team sports, and their rate of participation in contact sports, like football, hockey and lacrosse, was 142 percent higher.»

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) can occur in individuals who have received blows to the head on repeated occasions, such as may occur in contact sports such as boxing, ice hockey and American football.