Heat stress is preventable if parents, coaches and other adults involved
with youth football programs have access to and utilize the right information,» said Michael F. Bergeron, Ph.D., ACSM Fellow and panel co-chair.
What I learned from working with the Newcastle team, and
with youth football programs across the country over the years is that traditional concussion education in which athletes, coaches, and parents are taught the signs and symptoms of concussion, and the health risks of concussion and repetitive head trauma, isn't working to change the concussion reporting behavior of athletes.
Not exact matches
«There was a very good turnout
with probably close to 1,000 people coming out for the four games,» said Ken Garrett, president of the Junior Falcons
Youth Football and Cheer
program.
Despite their
youth, Folsom can steal some of the attention from the school's back - to - back section champion
football program with a victory Saturday.
Fortunately, as result of my first - hand experience, working closely the past four
football seasons (on many
football fields)
with six different sensor manufacturers, the high school
football program in Newcastle, and, most recently, the
youth football program in Grand Prairie, TX, and from covering the concussion beat, along
with a team of experts and staff journalists, for the past fifteen years, I believe MomsTEAM and I are in a unique position to explain just what impact sensors are all about.
Finally, on Tuesday, came the exciting news that a group, including the NFL, NFL Players Association, NCAA, NOCSAE (the organization that certifies new helmets), SIGMA, and NAERA (the group, have entered into an unprecedented partnership
with football helmet manufacturers Rawlings, Riddell, Schutt, and Xenith to create a
youth football safety and helmet replacement
program for
youth in underserved communities.
The Professional
Football Athletic Trainers Society has partnered with USA Football to advance youth and high school football player safety by endorsing USA Football's Heads Up football
Football Athletic Trainers Society has partnered
with USA
Football to advance youth and high school football player safety by endorsing USA Football's Heads Up football
Football to advance
youth and high school
football player safety by endorsing USA Football's Heads Up football
football player safety by endorsing USA
Football's Heads Up football
Football's Heads Up
football football program.
While I will not be able to participate in the roundtable, it is probably just as well because,
with MomsTEAM Institute's SmartTeams Play Safe summit in Boston in my rear view mirror, I am devoting all my energies the rest of the fall sports season to working
with an incredibly talented and dedicated group of certified athletic trainers at the grass roots level on our SmartTeamTM pilot
program, which is helping parents, coaches, administrators, and more than 800 athletes in
youth football programs in six states play safe by being smart.
He is a past trustee of ACSM and currently a member of the Medical Advisory Committee for Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. that provides
youth football and cheer and dance
programs with an emphasis on maintaining academic standards.