Sentences with phrase «soccer headgear»
Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports explains how daughter's concussion led to start of soccer headgear company.
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Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports talks about and the role of protective headgear in reducing the risk of concussion and the difference between concussions, which occur as a result of contact between a player's head and a hard object (another player's head, the ground or the goalpost), and the kinds of brain injuries which can occur as a result of repeated heading of a soccer ball.
Teenage soccer players who wear protective headgear suffer nearly half as many concussions as those who play without helmets, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Canada's McGill University.
The McGill study is the first «to say that soft protective headgear for soccer significantly decreased the number of concussions for those athletes,» said lead researcher, Dr. Scott Delaney in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
The move only came though after a suspension by the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) on June 10, and a statement by on Friday by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) that it allowed soccer players to wear the religious headgear.