Sentences with phrase «reduction of head injuries»

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The panel acknowledged that one study had found that found that an association between the use of soft soccer helmets and a reduction in concussions and soft tissue injuries compared with no helmet, without increasing the risk of injury to areas not covered by the head gear.

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.

Dr Rissel added that after helmets were made compulsory, he and his colleague discovered «a continued but declining reduction in the ratio of head injuries to arm injuries [and]... it is likely that factors other than the mandatory helmet legislation reduced head injuries».