Month: December 2015
Lindsey Straus
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Prevention & Risk Reduction
December 26, 2015
- 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.
Helmetless Tackling and Blocking Drills Lead to Decreased Head Impacts in College Football Players
Engaging in a 5-minute helmetless tackling drill twice a week during pre-season football and once a week during the season reduced by almost a third the frequency of impacts to
Brooke de Lench
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Blogs
December 21, 2015
- Brooke de Lench
Author: Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Founder and Publisher, MomsTEAM.com, Producer of The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer. Follow Brooke on Twitter @brookedelench. Email her at delench@MomsTEAM.com.
Why I’m Not A Football Apologist or Anti-Football Zealot, But A Pro-Safety Realist
As I await tonight’s advance screening in Boston of Sony Pictures’ movie, Concussion, which opens nationwide on Christmas Day, the polarized debate over football has once again reached a fever
Barbara K. Kinder, M.D., FACS
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Treatment & Management
December 11, 2015
- Barbara K. Kinder, M.D., FACS
Author: William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery, Emerita, Yale University School of Medicine
Post-Concussion Syndrome: A Physician-Mother’s Perspective
“I miss my mind and my body” This poignant but accurate statement of my daughter’s is her description of her post-concussion world. In January 2012, my daughter, Caitlin, two-time Olympic
