Sentences with phrase «more head impacts»

Players in «Back» positions (quarterback, running back, and linebacker positions) sustained more head impacts than players in other positions.

And, important to note, studies have shown that far more head impacts occur during football practice drills than during games.

* «Offensive linemen and defensive linemen experience more head impacts during both full - pad and half - pad practices relative to all other positions.»

Not exact matches

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Even that marginal reduction in helmet use lowered the overall number of head impacts by 28 percent — a startling drop in any context, but even more so before you consider that just a small slice of the overall total of practice time was used.

After the impact, the senior slumped over onto the turf — it was clear right away something was wrong, and even looked like he might've somehow hurt his head at first, but after looking at it, the ankle seems more likely.

Two recent deaths have drawn attention to the less obvious, but much more common impact of simply heading the ball.

As if that wasn't enough, the older the woman, the more likely she was headed for splitsville, resulting, not surprisingly, in some serious impacts on her health and quality of life.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

By monitoring head impact exposure in real time, sensors give sideline personnel an additional tool to alert them to high - risk impacts so they can consider performing a concussion assessment, or, alerted to the fact that an athlete has sustained a heavy hit, can watch them more closely for concussion signs.

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.

More parents are becoming educated about the risks head injuries - whether of the diagnosed concussion variety or the result of repetitive impacts - and the steps that can and are being taken to minimize those risks.

If an injured adult reads the numbers more slowly after a head impact than in baseline testing, he or she is considered to have sustained a concussion.

The Michigan study pointed to recent research suggesting that the number of head impacts sustained may play a more important role in putting an athlete at risk of developing CTE than clinically evident concussions.

Indeed, the 2014 University of Rochester study [23] suggests that, «rather than monitor total head hits, as [was initially suggested [by Sports Legacy Institute in its much publicized Hit Count program], it may be more effective to monitor those hits that are most likely to produce [white matter] changes, which Bazarian and his colleagues found were when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration of 4500 rads / sec2exceeded 30 - 40 for the season, and when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration.6000 rads / sec2 exceeded 10 - 15 for the season.

Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.

As more is learned about youth head impact exposure, the researchers say, they can begin to develop methods to evaluate youth - specific helmet designs (as is now being done in the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings, TM now in its third year; ratings of youth football helmets are promised in 2014.

We should focus mostly on the more common frontal collisions but keeping our children rear facing for a long time is also a great way to keep vulnerable head and neck area well protected in side impact collisions.

Aikman wants the NFL to divulge more details about what it knew regarding the long - term impact of repeated blows to the head, and when it knew it.

CR recommends boosters with a highback mode for everyday use because they typically provide better shoulder belt fit, some side - impact protection, and a more comfortable place for children to rest their head.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Kim Whelan, Shipley's head athletic trainer, noted that the school's varsity soccer teams didn't have a single concussion last year, which she attributes partially to kids being more aware of the head impacts they were sustaining.

Shipley's head impact monitoring program involved the deployment of more than 100 head impact sensors to athletes across a number of sports, including soccer, basketball and lacrosse.

When the same baby travels rearward facing, the back of the protective car seat shell and the padded side wings protect the head and neck, and absorb and spread the forces of the impact more evenly.

While there are currently no side impact standards that any car seat manufacturer must meet, having a car seat with additional internal head wings, with a strong structure and energy absorbing foam like the radian rXT and rainier, does provide more protection for a child's head.

A study from the American Academy of Pediatrics has revealed that concussions sustained from top - of - the head impact are more severe than impact sustained in other areas.

* «Severe - intensity head impacts are much more likely to occur during a game, followed by full - pad practices and half - pad practices.»

Howie Katz, the gay activist who led the hate crimes bill coalition in New York for more than a decade (and another Impact Award winner this year), and Matt Foreman, who headed the Pride Agenda when the bill finally passed in 2000, both recall that Paterson was one of two African - American legislators who spearheaded the refusal to compromise on the inclusion of sexual orientation in the legislation.

If doing double duty as a courier or digging up spare stamps takes more time, DEC workers may have to shift around their priorities, as Gov. David Paterson's Budget Division, in another cost - cutting move last week ordered agency heads to eliminate overtime except in instances where health or public safety is impacted.

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Armed with the knowledge of which drills are more likely associated with severe head impacts as well as which drills produce greater numbers of head impacts per hour, the authors believe that coaches and league organizers can develop a practice structure that will reduce exposure to high - magnitude head impacts.

Other traits, including those that might seem more dramatic, had surprisingly little impact on diversification and species numbers: evolutionary accomplishments such as having a head, limbs, and complex organ systems for circulation and digestion don't seem to be primary accessories in the evolutionary «dress for success.»

Thorough examination of variations among practice drills with respect to the number of head impacts, their magnitude, and the location on the head where they occur provides researchers with information on what drills are more likely to increase risks of injury.

The impact was even more pronounced among female - headed households.

Next month, a team from Texas A&M University in College Station and other institutions will head into the gulf to try to glean more clues to the impact of the spill.

Astonishingly, 39 percent of respondents sustained more than five head injuries and 77 percent had more than three head impacts during their time in theater.

Nevertheless, practice sessions occur more frequently than games, and thus subject players to more opportunities to receive head impacts.

Their goal was to determine under what circumstances high - magnitude head impacts (linear or rotational accelerations measuring more than 40g, which are more likely to cause concussions than lower - magnitude impacts) occur and how representative practice activities are of game activities with respect to these head impacts.

Not surprisingly, the more playing time an athlete had, the greater chance that particular youth would sustain a high - magnitude head impact.

These players were more likely to experience high - magnitude head impacts during a tackling activity; players in offensive and defensive line positions were more likely to sustain head impacts during a blocking activity.

That's because people with poor social skills tend to experience more stress and loneliness, both of which can negatively impact health, said study author Chris Segrin, head of the UA Department of Communication.

In 1998, Congress mandated an evaluation of Head Start, called the Head Start Impact Study, a randomized trial of more than 4,000 children, ages 3 and 4, newly entering the Head Start program.

-- In a blog post, Jay Bradner, the former head of Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and the current president of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, wrote that too many investment dollars have gone into redundant cancer programs, such as more checkpoint inhibitors, rather than going after tougher drug targets that might have a greater future impact.

This suggests that some individuals might be more vulnerable to repetitive head impacts and might either take longer to recover or won't recover at all.»

It doesn't seem like it should make a negative impact on the quality of the push up — at least not in my head — if anything it seems to me that it should be slightly more pressure on the arms.

I wanted big impact and no surprise... low cost... so as I was preparing to do wood cut out houses, I realized that it would A. take more time and B. would have to be seriously attached so as not to fall on my children's heads.

Our reaction to a decollated head, or a woman in car being blown up to smithereens, is more visceral, and far outweighs an abstract murder that took place beyond the fade - out, when it comes to impacting the audience, who needs to sympathize with Clyde's loss during his self - righteous killing spree.