Although the public focuses a lot of attention on
the dangers of head injuries in football, cycling actually outranks football as the leading sport for head injuries.
A COFFS Harbour professor is leading the way in teaching NSW school kids about
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But in the end, it was, in my view, a woefully tame and romanticized depiction of the steps the league has taken to protect its current players from
the dangers of head injuries in a sport that has left too many of its former players struggling in retirement with symptoms of early dementia, depression, and thoughts of suicide.
The N.F.L.'s Super Bowl commercial touting the league's progress since its founding to make the game safer obscured the reality that league has not done enough to protect its current players from
the dangers of head injuries and left too many of its former players struggling in retirement with symptoms of early dementia, depression, and thoughts of suicide.
Some experts have predicted the decline of America's most popular sport as people learn more about
the dangers of head injuries.
Not exact matches
Every single coach that I have known has not only known about the
dangers of exposing players to repeated
head injuries, but they've supported their players who have to take some time to recover.
Concussion and Sports Related
Head Injury: Code 280.13 C requires the Iowa high school athletic association and the Iowa girls high school athletic union to work together to distribute the CDC guidelines and other information to inform and educate coaches, students, and parents and guardians
of students
of the risks, signs, symptoms, and behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain
injury, including the
danger of continuing to play after suffering a concussion or brain
injury and their responsibility to report such signs, symptoms, and behaviors if they occur.
With a possible
head injury, a parent needs to watch their child for 27 symptoms over 1st 72 hrs and know 11
DANGER SIGNS (any 1
of 11 = means a parent should make 911 call).
The
danger of doing this is that in the event
of an accident, baby's neck isn't fully developed or strong enough to support a heavy
head which can lead to spinal
injury.
Lots
of evidence points to the
danger of sports - related
head injuries — in young people and adults.
It would most likely be up to a jury to consider whether modern day football helmet has any design defects and, in weighing that question, a Massachusetts jury would be asked to weigh several factors: - the gravity
of the
danger posed by the current football helmet design - the likelihood that
head injury will result from the use
of the helmet - the technical feasibility
of a safer alternative design - the financial feasibility
of that alternative design, and - any other consequences likely to result from the alternative design However, even if a jury were to conclude that there exists a cost - effective design that would be more effective in preventing
head injuries than the current football helmet design, the manufacturer might still have a few defenses under Massachusetts law: the so - called Vassallo defense and Correia defense.