Sentences with phrase «helmet contact»

If the coaches are concerned enough about head injury to require players to get baseline testing, I suspect they will be strict about enforcing safety rules, such as no helmet - to - helmet contact.

Well, before helmet - to - helmet contact was banned, that is.

The majority of concussions involved helmet - to - helmet contact, and 95 % involved players in skilled positions (e.g., running back, quarterback, linebacker).

National Athletic Trainers» Association Reiterates Dangers of Football Helmet - to - Helmet Contact

«While these changes mostly involve reorganization, the committee is confident that the rules now place a stronger emphasis on flagrant acts and illegal helmet contact,» said Bob Colgate, NFHS assistant director and liaison to the Football Rules Committee.

Examples of illegal helmet contact that could result in disqualification include, but are not limited to: a) illegal helmet contact against an opponent lying on the ground; b) illegal helmet contact against an opponent being held up by other players; and c) illegal helmet - to - helmet contact against a defenseless opponent.

Rules revisions regarding illegal helmet contact were among 14 rules revisions made by the committee at its January 20 - 21 meeting in Indianapolis.

In Rule 2, the committee placed butt blocking, face tackling and spearing under the heading of «Helmet Contact — Illegal» to place more emphasis on risk - minimization concerns.

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 sport.

The NFL rulebook will now take a page out of the college book and be expanded to protect players further from helmet - to - helmet contact.

This is especially true for defenders, who under current contact rules often have no idea how fast or slow they're supposed to go in a tackling situation — and who could be ejected by rule for helmet - to - helmet contact even if they do everything correctly.

It looked clean at first, but when it is slowed down, you can see that there is some helmet - to - helmet contact.

In doing so he clearly made helmet - to - helmet contact with Nelson as he made the tackle while Nelson was still in the process of making the catch.

I have a huge problem with the flag being thrown in this instance, even though, technically, there was helmet - to - helmet contact.

Unfortunately, the play was flagged for unnecessary roughness because of helmet - to - helmet contact.

So helmet contact probably wouldn't be penalized in those cases.

Not exact matches

Seattle - based startup Vicis has been working since 2013 on a new type of football helmet that's designed to yield on contact.

Even with today's enhanced helmets and careful staff monitoring, it seems that full - contact football exacts a brutal cost, one that boils down most ominously to an acronym: CTE.

No player shall target and make forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent (See Note 2 below) with the helmet, forearm, hand, fist, elbow or shoulder.

Its simple - They want to make our kids wear helmets and pads while they play 24 challenge, and limit High School atheletics to low - contact hug fests just so there kids can have a better shot at winning.

I wouldn't have any problem with the helmet - to - helmet / defenseless player rules if the calls were reviewable so teams aren't unfairly penalized because some official forgot to wear his contacts that day.

No player shall target and initiate contact against an opponent with the crown (top) of his helmet.

After Hutchinson was pulled off of Evans, he tried to kick an opponents helmet into the stands and fell down after making contact.

Donald made contact with an official, was ejected, and angrily tossed his helmet onto the field.

Jags safety Barry Church gets flagged for making contact with Gronk's helmet.

lol you hit it on the nail but i think Cech should get contact lenses don't think glasses and a crash helmet will work together

«If your helmet comes in contact?

Lowering the head before attacking by initiating forcible contact with the crown of the helmet

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Playing Rule Article 8: It is a foul if a player lowers his head to initiate and make contact with his helmet against an opponent.

Leading with helmet, shoulder, forearm, fist, hand or elbow to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area

An illegal personal contact foul was added to Rule 9 -4-3 to state that «no player or nonplayer shall initiate contact with an opposing player whose helmet has come completely off.»

Consumers should stop using these bike helmets immediately and contact Triple Eight for a full refund.

The metal snap that connects the chin strap to the helmet has sharp edges, posing a laceration hazard when the user's metal snap comes into contact with another player.

Consumers should stop using these helmets immediately and contact Easton Sports for a full refund.

As such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - and some helmet manufacturers who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant widespread use in contact and collision sports.

After following closely developments in the impact sensor area for a number of years, and believing that this cutting edge technology had the potential to revolutionize the sideline identification of concussion in contact and collision sports and combat the chronic underreporting of concussions by athletes (which a new study has just shown persists, despite increased education), we decided to beta test the Shockbox football helmet sensor (one of the sensors nearing market launch).

The presentation on USA Football's Heads Up program - a program designed to teach kids, and, more importantly, the coaches who teach the kids, how to tackle in a way that minimizes helmet - on - helmet and helmet - on - body contact, and one of the four steps in its Four Step Game Plan for improving football safety - was definitely worth hearing about and is a big step in the right direction towards taking the head out of football, although, again, I couldn't help but ask - at least to myself - what took them so long: teaching heads up tackling is something that MomsTEAM and one of our bloggers, former pro football player Bobby Hosea, have been promoting for at least four years!

As such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - as well as some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sports.

I wanted to ask them for their reaction to a recent survey of college athletes in contact and collision sports at the University of Pennsylvania which found that, despite being educated about the dangers of continuing to play with concussion symptoms, most are still very reluctant to report symptoms because they want to stay in the game, and to comment on reports that the N.F.L. players» union was against putting sensors in helmets that would alert the sideline to hits of a sufficient magnitude to cause concussion, which may be the technological solution (or, in football parlance «end - around») to the chronic under - reporting problem.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.

In the ever increasing evidence linking concussions with lifelong brain damage, Princeton School Districts decided to act, implementing that athletes for high contact sports wear soft helmets.

Limiting contact at football practices could be pivotal in reducing youth head injuries, according to the latest collaborative helmet research effort released Monday by two universities.

Make sure your child wears a helmet when riding a bike or a skateboard or using inline skates; riding on a motorcycle, snowmobile, or all - terrain vehicle; or playing contact sports.

Still, eliminating head injuries from football or other contact sports could prove exceedingly difficult, says Gary Solomon, a neuropsychologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. «I don't think we're ever going to have a concussion - proof helmet.»

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If you feel your cycling accident or injuries stem from a design flaw with the bike itself, hazardous roads or poor helmet design, contact the Tampa bicycle accident attorneys at Dennis Hernandez & Associates, PA to assist you in seeking justice.

Cyclists are vulnerable when using Scotland's roads: while you may wear a helmet and the requisite protective gear, the risk of suffering injury is as a matter of fact significantly higher for you if you come into contact with another road user.

You wore a helmet, purchased reflective clothing, mounted a headlight on your bike and did your very best to make eye contact.