Prevention & Risk Reduction
Brooke de Lench
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Top Stories, Prevention & Risk Reduction, Identification & Diagnosis, Treatment & Management, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts, Blogs
October 2, 2014
- 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.
The Smartest Team: Staking Out The Sensible Middle In The Polarized Debate About Football
It has been an exciting week for those of us who worked so hard over the past two years to produce The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer.
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Top Stories, Prevention & Risk Reduction
July 29, 2014
- 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.
Type, Age, Reconditioning History Do Not Affect Concussion Risk, Study Finds
The risk of sustaining a concussion in high school football is not affected by the brand, age of the helmet, or recondition status, or by the type of mouth guard
Lindsey Straus
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Prevention & Risk Reduction
December 20, 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.
Risk Factors For Sports Concussion: Only Concussion History, Game Action Certain To Increase Risk, Study Finds
Previous concussions and match play increase the risk of sustaining subsequent concussions, but the jury is still out on whether other factors, such as gender, playing position, playing level, style
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
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
Brooke de Lench
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Prevention & Risk Reduction, Identification & Diagnosis, Treatment & Management
November 19, 2008
- 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.
Create Safe Concussion Symptom Environment, de Lench Tells National Concussion Conference
The following are remarks by MomsTEAM Institute Executive Director Brooke de Lench to a national sports concussion conference in Marina Del Ray, California in 2008: Thank you for that kind
