Sentences with phrase «fund on concussions»

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The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB773 (2013) authorizes the state department of education to use up to $ 1 million from its General Improvement Fund on a pilot project on concussion mConcussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB773 (2013) authorizes the state department of education to use up to $ 1 million from its General Improvement Fund on a pilot project on concussion mconcussion management.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

The NOCSAE action to move forward the development of a more comprehensive helmet standard was taken on the heels of new NOCSAE - funded research which identified brain tissue response from a concussive event and the development of a new method to test helmets which replicates some of the rotational forces involved in a concussion.

Along these lines, the Department of Defense and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) plan to launch a $ 30 - million effort to fund studies on concussion and head - impact exposure among college - age athletes with a multisite longitudinal clinical study on concussion risks, treatment and management.

The study, funded by Mayo Clinic, focuses on concussion specialists using telemedicine technology to determine if a player needs to be removed from play in real time.

U.S. District Court Judge Anita Brody, who has been overseeing the NFL Concussion case, is set to rule on whether or not litigation funder Thrivest will be permitted or prohibited from compulsory arbitration with ex-NFL player William E. White.