Sentences with phrase «other contact sports»

He acknowledges the state does not require similar provisions for other contact sports like football, hockey and boxing.
The risk of injury is much higher in mixed martial arts than in other contact sports, including collegiate football.
Since 2005, CTE has been reported in more than 50 former football players, as well as in players of other contact sports and military veterans.
While football - related injuries make up about half of these concussions, other contact sports such as soccer, basketball, and baseball contribute a sizeable share as well.
On the other side of the argument, industry leaders have been attempting to make the sport safer, and criticisms have been raised about the methods used to determine risk and to make comparisons to other contact sports.
«In ice hockey and other contact sports, repeated concussions are common, where the brain has not finished healing after the first blow.
In football, hockey and other contact sports, protective headgear seems to have increased the risk of concussion by providing a false sense of security that encourages athletes to hit harder with their head.
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.»
Although the finding comes from mice, it may help scientists better understand the damage caused by repetitive impacts such as those sustained in football, soccer and other contact sports.
Neurologists have long suspected that other contact sports might also lead to CTE — particularly rugby union because of its emphasis on high - speed «hits».
This is a common condition in American Football and other contact sports, caused by nerve compression from impact to the neck and shoulder area.
For the few who truly need more abdominal power, which includes those athletes in boxing, martial arts, football and other contact sports, but usually not endurance, performing «crunches» can help.
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