Research out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison revealed that limiting the amount of full-contact tackling a teen does in high school football practices can significantly reduce incidences of concussions. For the study, researchers examined sports-related concussion rates among high school football players both before and after the state instituted a limit on the amount and […]
Could NFL Head Injuries and Off-Field Violence Be Linked?
NFL players have been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. Ray Rice was suspended after a video surfaced of him punching his fiancé, and local players like Adrian Peterson and Jerome Simpson have had off-field issues of their own. When I write about football players on this blog it has to do […]
Custom Mouthguards Help Reduce Football Concussions
A new study by researchers at the Academy of General Dentistry found that athletes who used custom-fitted mouthguards suffered fewer concussions and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) than athletes who wore over-the-counter mouthguards. For their study, authors Winters and DeMont separated 412 male high school athletes from six area high schools into two groups. The first […]
Football Concussions Serious at All Levels
New research suggests that concussions are comparable in magnitude and severity regardless of the age at which a football player sustains the injury, and the majority of concussions occur during practice, not games. The research was designed to determine how concussions affected brain activity and development depending upon when the injury was sustained. For their […]