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September 6, 2017
- 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.
Is Letting A Child Play Contact or Collision Sports Child Abuse?
The last month has seen an all-out assault on the game of football, not coincidentally timed with the beginning of football preseason. First came a study reporting CTE in 110 of
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Prevention & Risk Reduction
August 23, 2016
- 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.
Limits On Full-Contact Practices In High School Football Significantly Reduce Impact Exposure
A 2016 study finds that a rule change limiting full-contact high school football practices was effective in reducing head-impact exposure for all players, with the largest reduction occurring among lineman. (1) The
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July 15, 2016
- 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.
Pediatrics Group’s Position On Tackle Football Strikes Right Balance
Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) endorsed efforts to limit contact practices in youth football, but declined to make a clear recommendation in favor of delaying the age at
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Top Stories, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts
June 10, 2016
- 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.
- 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.
Repetitive Head Impacts: A Major Concern At All Levels of Sports
UPDATED A growing body of research suggests that brain trauma among football players (and athletes in other sports such as soccer and ice hockey) is less the result of violent collisions
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May 27, 2016
- 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
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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
