Sentences with phrase «contact head of school»

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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 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 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.

This past weekend, the MInnesota State High School League took an unprecedented step of changing the rules mid-season, by stiffening the penalties on three of the most violent and dangerous infractions in hockey: checking from behind, boarding and contact to the head will now result in an automatic five - minute «major» against the offending player resulting in ejection and forcing his team to play short - handed for five minutes, regardless of how many times it is scored upon during the ensuing power play.

Estimation of Head Impact Exposure in High School Football: Implications for Regulating Contact Practices.

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.

«The results of this study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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 recommend).

He described the goal of reducing the overall number of head impacts that high school football players sustain in a season as «logical» and «appealing,» but noted that, «until the risk factors for chronic traumatic encephalopathy [25](CTE) are better defined by carefully designed and controlled research,» and research determines «what the advisable limit to head impact exposure should be,» employing contact limits or establishing «hit counts [4]» will remain «educated guesses, at best.»

Limiting contact practices in football to one session per week, or eliminating contact practices altogether, for example, would, according to a 2013 study [10] by researchers at the University of Michigan, result in an 18 % to 40 % reduction in head impacts respectively over the course of a high school football season.

The statement recognizes the work of the NFL, NCAA and National Federation of State High School Associations, which have studied injury patterns and created rules related to top of the head contact.

The NFL, NCAA and National Federation of State High School Associations have each studied head and neck injuries and generated rules to try to cut down on top - of - the - head contact in football.

Dr. Robert Cantu, one of the world's leading experts on head trauma in sport and a clinical professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine, has pointed to studies showing at least 30 percent of concussions in soccer come from the act of heading the ball, sometimes through direct contact with the ball but more significantly when the head smashes into another player or the ground.

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Notes For further comment or information, please contact BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson on 0781 55 89 636 or at [email protected] or BHA Head of Public Affairs Pavan Dhaliwal on 0773 843 5059 or at [email protected].

Alford and Osborne contacted the heads of elementary and middle school science departments.

«This research increases our basic understanding of the effects of head trauma, particularly for those severe single injuries that can and do happen in military service and contact sports,» said Naomi Rosenberg, Ph.D., dean of the Sacker School and vice dean for research at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Thus, a group of scientists led by Prof. Oliver Lieleg, professor for Biomechanics and head of the «Biopolymers and Bio-Interfaces» lab at the Munich School of BioEngineering, had the idea to apply the missing mucin directly to the contact lens.

«We had performed multiple imaging studies on contact sports athletes in the past where we found changes in white matter diffusion over the course of a single season of sport (and exposure to repetitive head impacts),» explained study author Inga Katharina Koerte of the University of Munich and Harvard Medical School.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders» union the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said that headteachers would be in regular contact with parents on travel to and from school.

Schools interested in taking part in the scheme should contact Emma Fay, head of innovation and development at Future First, on 0207 239 8933, [email protected].

8 - 10 — Independent education: Meeting, sponsored by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest, for independent school heads and trustees, to be held at the Inn at Loretto in Santa Fe, N.M. Contact: Richard W. Ekdahl, I.S.A.S., P.O. Box 52297, Tulsa, Okla. 74152 - 0297; [phone]; fax: [phone].

For added perspective, I contacted Dan Lang, head of the middle school at Francis Parker School in San school at Francis Parker School in San School in San Diego.

Additional schools have been contacted by Head of Partnership, and they have unfailingly welcomed the assistance of the students in their classrooms.

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Their office was able to supply only one paper, which was a letter from the former head of the school indicating she was leaving and the new contact person would be Carol Miller.

Contact department heads or administrators at reputable design schools to inquire about locating job boards or finding other ways of reaching out to students and staff for potential freelance work.

In addition, our Eversheds Sutherland Scholars program has afforded us an opportunity to meet students of color heading to law school and to remain in contact with them during their law school careers.

In many instances, a member of the special education needs team and / or year head may contact parents of students with special educational needs prior to transitioning to post-primary school.