Sentences with phrase «reduces serious head injury»

Not exact matches

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).

You have had a serious injury to your head or treatment for a brain tumor or cancer (this typically reduces GH levels but could potentially increase them)

In the rear seat, the potential for serious injury is influenced by whether the seating position puts occupants» heads in proximity to areas designed with padding or something else to reduce impact forces versus areas with hard or unprotected structures.

Its position between the glass and sunroof visor allow the airbag to inflate regardless of whether the roof is open or closed and Hyundai says that in testing with dummies it prevented passengers from being flung out of the vehicle when open, or serious head trauma occurring when closed, reducing live - threatening injuries to minor ones.

... helmet use is not a panacea for drastically reducing cycling related fatalities or serious head injuries.

This will dramatically reduce your risk of a serious head injury in the event of a bike accident, and could quite possibly be the difference between life and death.