Sentences with phrase «serious head injuries playing»

High school athletes still suffer far more serious head injuries playing football and ice hockey than soccer, according to a study by RIO, which tracks concussion rates in high school sports.

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Portable cribs and mesh play yards pose a serious threat for numerous reasons such as choking or entanglement hazards; head entrapment or suffocation; and risk of injury from tipping when legs on the product become loose and separate.

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).

While Reebok and the Cambridge, Mass. - based company MC10 are still very hush - hush about their thin adhesive fitness tracking sensor sticker, both companies announced the invention of a new wearable sports impact indicator that can gauge how serious a head injury might be when playing sports.

By Sacramento Bee No helmet pad can prevent or eliminate the risk of concussions or other serious head injuries while playing sports.

AFTER A SERIOUS HEAD INJURY Brady Blackburn, played by newcomer Brady Jandreau, had to find a way to redefine himself since he was being told he could not do what he loved.

Following the decision by Andre Villas — Boas, the Tottenham Hotspur manager, to allow his goalkeeper to continue play after a serious collision on the pitch, Moore Blatch is calling for a change in attitude towards head injuries in football.