Sentences with phrase «head injuries by»

At these speeds, helmets can cut both the number and the severity of head injuries by half.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, helmets can reduce the likelihood of a motorcycle crash fatality by 37 % and head injuries by 69 %, but hardly any states, including Texas, have a universal helmet law.

Taking care to avoid head injuries by wearing a helmet when you ride a bicycle, motorcycle, skate board, or other moving object is one suggestion.

The National Ski Areas Association recommends kids wear helmets while skiiing or snowboarding, saying helmets can reduce the risk of head injuries by 30 to 50 percent.

Properly fitted helmets can reduce the risk of head injuries by at least 45 percent — yet less than half of children ages 14 and under usually wear a bike helmet.

A properly fitted bike helmet can reduce your risk of a head injury by as much as 85 percent.

For instance, wearing a helmet during a bike ride can reduce your risk of a head injury by 85 %, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, wearing a helmet can reduce a cyclists's risk for head injury by up to 50 percent.

Not exact matches

The worst injury was suffered by Ryan Berntt, a teenager who was shot in the head with a rubber bullet by police, leaving him in a month - long coma and with permanent brain damage.

For instance, we can induce the probability of suffering a head injury when riding a bicycle by observing how frequently it has happened in the past.

Not to defend this guy too much, but he was hit by a car in an accident that involved a head injury in 2004, and then recently had a stroke — and he's 80s years old.

The study comes shortly after the NFL released its official 2015 injury report, which shows that instances of head trauma rose by 32 percent from 2014 to 2015.

The Cameroonian striker scored the only goal of the game for his side in a 2 - 1 loss to USM Alger from the penalty spot and later died due to injuries suffered when hit in the head by a missile from the stands.

The Indianapolis Star's Mike Wells reports that Hill's injury was sustained via a hit to the head by New York center Tyson Chandler in the first quarter of Game 4.

Scotland still had to negotiate a late scare in injury time when a delicious free kick from substitute Robbie Brady was headed beyond his own goalkeeper and onto the bar by centre back Grant Hanley, but Scotland held on for a win that they just about deserved.

Arsenal have been plagued by injury problems a lot more than our Premier League rivals in recent years and there is a strong argument that our bad luck on this front has cost the Gunners at least one title win, so we are always concerned about one or more of our stars picking up a knock, especially when they head off on international duty.

«I would have been haunted in my head by last year's injury that was much more serious than expected at the start.

When head coach Todd Bowles was Arizona's defensive coordinator in 2014, his linebacker corps got decimated by injuries and suspensions, and he experimented with putting a couple of his physical safeties in the box at linebacker.

Mertesacker was forced off with a head injury just before the half hour mark and was replaced by Kolasinac who continued to look a threat.

The mirror have an article on how Arsenal improved their injury record by more than 25 % already and are about to get even better and head off our rivals once more (similar to how we were streets ahead from 98 to early 2ooos)

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We can complain too much about the clinical side of the game from Arsenal this weekend, as the equalising goal headed in by Olivier Giroud just before injury time came from our one and only shot on target from the Premier League away game against Manchester United.

Skrtel's head injury is not enough to keep him out of the starting lineup, as proven by his last minute equaliser versus Arsenal.

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Despite recent media attention on concussions and other brain trauma, the majority of football injuries occur in the lower extremities, with injuries to the knees reported to be as high as 36.5 percent, followed by up to 18.8 percent for ankle injuries, up to 13.3 percent for shoulder injuries, 11.8 percent for head injuries and 7.2 percent for neck injuries.

As seen in the video below, the Fenerbache ace looked dazed and out of it as his head was lifted up by Duda, but the great news is that he didn't suffer any serious injury and will undoubtedly be thankful to his teammate for his help.

I don't know about the rest of you Arsenal fans, but I am still scratching my head trying to figure out just what the hell Arsene Wenger was thinking by only completing the one bargain basement transfer deal on the January window, despite the club being sat on a mountain of cash and having our best chance of the Premier League title in a decade put at risk by losing a number of key players to injury.

@DarkPope — the paragraph suggests that lemar to arsenal becomes more likely following injury to mbappe; i disagree, the lemar transfer nothing to do with injury to mbappe its to do with having his head turned, regardless, by arsenal's offer (s).

Both Teams were plagued by injuries heading into this one..

New York Jets running back Shonn Greene was hit hard by Partiots middle linebacker Brandon Spikes and immediately went to the ground with what appeared to be a head injury.

Knocked cold by an onrushing Romelu Lukaku, Lloris nevertheless played the remaining twelve minutes of the game, an attitude that one prominent head injury charity described as «irresponsible and cavalier».

Seantrel Henderson, the former top recruit in the country who has been plagued by injuries since arriving at The University of Miami, is unlikely to play for the season opener against Boston College after head coach Al Golden told the Palm Beach Post's Jorge Milian that Henderson needs to «get his personal house in order.»

(2) On a yearly basis, a concussion and head injury information sheet shall be signed and returned by the athlete and the athlete's parent or guardian before the athlete's initiating practice or competition.

This is a very specific product designed to prevent microscopic injuries, and thus far it's unclear whether the NeuroShield will have any effect in preventing concussions caused by head trauma — but it is a step forward for safety.

It is like a mantra in his head, «it's all about wanting more» is a regular phrase, and it is an opportune moment to discuss the journey he has made from bit - part player, from someone who was even offered up as a makeweight in a failed bid to sign Clint Dempsey from Fulham in 2012, to being shunted around the team, then hampered by a chronic heel injury, fretting about his future, to now being a captain, a leader, a key player for Klopp.

With Seville trailing 2 - 1 away to Shaktar Donetsk in the UEFA Cup, keeper Andres Palop rescued the Spanish side by heading home from a corner four minutes into injury time to help keep his side in the competition that they went on to win in 2006.

World Rugby has further strengthened its commitment to injury prevention by announcing details of a zero - tolerance approach to reckless and accidental head contact in the sport.

The referee waved play on and compounded his decision by not stopping play despite Reid appearing to have a head injury.

While it looked nasty, as long as Per Mertesacker doesn't have concussion, his head injury shouldn't keep him out of action, but the muscular problems picked up by Gabriel and Aaron Ramsey are a worry.

A beat - up and injury depleted Arsenal head to the Greek capital on Wednesday needing to win by a scoreline other than 1 - 0 or 2 - 1 in order to reach the knockout stages of this season's Champions League.

The clash between Chelsea and Hull City at Stamford Bridge on Sunday was marred by a serious head injury suffered by Tigers midfielder Ryan Mason following a nasty collision with defender Gary Cahill just 21 minutes into the game.

We heard presentations by neuropsychologist Gerard Gioia, PhD of the National Children's Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland (co-author, by the way, of my favorite iPhone concussion app) and head injury consultant, Elizabeth Pieroth, Psy.D.

Kutcher also sees a second a second potential clinical benefit of impact monitoring systems, one which «stems not from the idea of monitoring impacts for the presence of an acute injury - generating hit, but from the potential advantage of accurately cataloguing the number of hits and post-impact head acceleration being experienced by an athlete over time.»

The second potential clinical benefit of impact monitoring systems stems not from the idea of monitoring impacts for the presence of an acute injury - generating hit, but from the potential advantage of accurately cataloguing the number of hits and post-impact head acceleration being experienced by an athlete over time.

Protecting players from increased risk of traumatic brain injury by teaching them «heads up» tackling and blocking, equipping them with properly fitted helmets, strengthening their necks to better withstand the forces that cause concussion, and by limiting the number of hits they sustain over the course of a season and career;

«We see more head injuries [in the pediatric emergency department] due to ice hockey and football than any other sport by far.»

It does not measure other critical brain functions that can be adversely affected by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»

At home, «baby swing sets should be used by children older than 1 year because younger babies» heads are too large and heavy and their neck muscles are too weak to prevent injury from the swinging action,» he says.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the departmHead Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the departmhead injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the departmhead injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the departmhead injury safety education course program approved by the department.

Concussion or Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic school and governing body of a charter school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to pHead Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic school and governing body of a charter school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to phead injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to play.