Month: September 2013
Lindsey Straus
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Prevention & Risk Reduction
September 6, 2013
- Lindsey Straus
Author: Lindsey Straus is an award-winning youth sports journalist, practicing attorney, and has been Senior Editor of SmartTeams since its launch as MomsTEAM in August 2000. She can be reached at lbartonstraus@MomsTEAM.com.
Limiting Contact Practices In High School Football: Proceed With Caution, Study Concludes
Until more known about risk factors for long-term brain injury from subconcussive impacts, prevention strategies remain 'educated guesses, at best.'
Limiting or eliminating contact practices in football would result in an 18% to 40% reduction in head impacts respectively over the course of a high school football season, reports a
