The respondents included 101 head athletic trainers,
head football trainers, and other sports - medicine professionals from the highest rung of college football, the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision.
Not exact matches
Before the day's practice could begin, he pulled aside San Francisco's vice president of
football operations and former
head athletic
trainer, Jeff Ferguson, and told him the news.
«We found no record of a
football player ever having this type of pelvic separation,» says Packers
head trainer Pepper Burruss.
My experience with the Newcastle
football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic
trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic
trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive
head impacts.
Formed in December 2010 to determine how the Ivy League could take a leadership role in trying to limit concussive hits in
football, the committee was co-chaired by Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim and Cornell President David J. Skorton, both medical doctors, and counted among its members various Ivy League
head football coaches, administrators, expert consultants, team physicians, and athletic
trainers, including Eric Laudano, M.H.S., A.T.C.,
head athletic
trainer at the University of Pennsylvania and MomsTeam expert.
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 streng
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 streng
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;
It seems increasingly obvious that professional
football players and the owners for whom they butt
heads every Sunday and Monday (and occasional Thursdays and Saturdays) for money simply can't be counted on to set the right example for the tens of thousands of youth and high school
football players who suffer concussions every season, far too many of which, like Morey's, never get reported to the coach, the athletic
trainer (if there is one), or even their teammates, friends or parents.
While none of the sensors will prevent a concussion; they have value as another set of eyes watching out for
head injuries, alerting parents or athletic
trainer when a hockey, lacrosse or
football player may have been hit hard enough to warrant a sideline assessment.
The Professional
Football Athletic Trainers Society has partnered with USA Football to advance youth and high school football player safety by endorsing USA Football's Heads Up football
Football Athletic
Trainers Society has partnered with USA
Football to advance youth and high school football player safety by endorsing USA Football's Heads Up football
Football to advance youth and high school
football player safety by endorsing USA Football's Heads Up football
football player safety by endorsing USA
Football's Heads Up football
Football's
Heads Up
football football program.
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).
Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for
football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic
trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic
head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.
November 4, 2011 — As the high school
football season
heads into the playoff stretch and upcoming winter sports season begins The Pennsylvania Athletic
Trainers» Society (PATS), announced today that it has partnered with Sport Safety International; a medical consulting firm that specializes in providing expert advice in the area of sport safety and injury prevention, to help introduce «Concussion Wise ™» an online concussion education program designed for athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care profes
Trainers» Society (PATS), announced today that it has partnered with Sport Safety International; a medical consulting firm that specializes in providing expert advice in the area of sport safety and injury prevention, to help introduce «Concussion Wise ™» an online concussion education program designed for athletic
trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care profes
trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care professionals.
Among the supporters of
Heads Up: The NFL, American
Football Coaches Association, National Athletic
Trainers Association and Professional
Football Athletic
Trainers Society.
He was the
head athletic
trainer with West Chester University
football for 28 years and currently owns and operates DevTay Enterprises in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
But the guidelines cite a presentation by North Carolina
head football athletic
trainer Scott Trulock that found:
Years of clinical experience lead David Polanski, TU's
head athletic
trainer and co-author of the study, to propose the hypothesis that the number of years of
football - playing experience might contribute to anatomical and behavioral changes.
With another season of scholastic
football in full swing at school districts across the country, a growing number of physicians and athletic
trainers are re-evaluating how they diagnose and treat
head injuries suffered during practices and games.
He is the co-author, with Dr. Kelly Starrett, of the forthcoming books Flight Plan and Waterman 2.0, and is also collaborating on Game Changer with University of Michigan
football performance director Dr. Fergus Connolly and Bridging the Gap with Sue Falsone, the first female athletic
head trainer in Major League sports.