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NFL's Goodell hopes for lighter helmets, sensors
AP Pro Football WriterNEW YORK (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell imagines a day in the not-too-distant future when players could be checked to determine whether their genetic makeup leaves them more likely to develop brain disease. They then might be told to...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Judges, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, National Football League
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Volunteer group works to educate young athletes about head trauma
marieg@herald-mail.comIt's difficult to make concussion statistics scarier than they are. But here are a few eye-openers: - Each year, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1.7 million people in the United States suffer a traumatic brain injury. About...Tags: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Happiest News!, Health and Medical Professionals, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Schools
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Steinberg: Football, and other contact sports, need to be rethought
In previous columns, I suggested that the increased size, speed and strength of today's NFL players are creating a dramatically more damaging set of collisions. We have known for years of the devastation these collisions cause on every joint in the human...Tags: Roger Goodell, Epidemics and Plagues, Football, Injuries and Wounds, Sports
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Edgy's football blog | Progress being made on concussion front, so no need for law
First-year Johnsburg football coach Mike Maloney has been around the game for most of his life — first as a standout player at Joliet Catholic, then at Illinois and finally at the high school level again as a head coach at Joliet Central and now...
Tags: Illinois High School Association, High Schools, Health and Safety at School, Football, Sports
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LVHN bringing sports medicine center downtown
The hockey puck careens off an opposing player's stick and flutters toward the boards. From the blue line, a Lehigh Valley Phantoms defender gives chase. As the Phantom approaches the boards, he lowers his head to dig out the puck. But he gets checked...
Tags: Lehigh Valley Hospital, High School Sports, Sports, Injuries and Wounds, Ice Hockey
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How can I protect my child from brain injury?
Lehigh Valley ParentingQ: With all this talk about sports stars and head injuries, I am worried if my kids should even be involved in sports. I make sure they wear a helmet when they ride their bikes but they don’t wear helmets in all their other sports. A: Head... -
Wear a helmet: It's worth it
Two weeks later and the muscles in my neck are still sore. It wasn't my fault. She took a sharp turn right into me without looking, clipped my skis and sent me spinning. I ended up falling backward downhill and smashing the back of my head hard...
Tags: Cycling, Vanderbilt University , Johns Hopkins University, Crime, Law and Justice, X Games
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Handling with care
I didn't play football growing up. Never got to date a cheerleader. But, as a consolation prize, I have had an ambulatory adulthood. I know guys who did play and aren't as lucky, and I don't want my kids to be like these guys. Matt, for example,...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Social Sciences, High School Sports, Alzheimer's Disease, Barack Obama
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Baseball is not a collision sport
The National Football League is taking steps to minimize the risk of concussions and other head injuries. So is the National Hockey League. So is Major League Baseball -- but it can do more without hurting the game. Baseball long ago cracked down on...
Tags: National Hockey League, St. Louis Cardinals, Major League Baseball, Sports, Injuries and Wounds
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Penguins vow to keep rolling without Crosby
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The streaking Pittsburgh Penguins have lost their captain. But that's OK, they say. Not only have the Penguins grown accustomed to playing without Sidney Crosby in recent years, they also just traded for two other team...
Tags: James Neal, Douglas Murray, Brenden Morrow, Tyler Kennedy, New York Islanders
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Steinberg: Horrigan helps young athletes play it safe
Athletes are attracted to participate in sports at the high school level because of the bonding, competition and the many invaluable life lessons that they learn. Unfortunately, an adolescent body is still in the growing process and subject to a greater...Tags: Los Angeles Kings, National Hockey League, Health and Safety at School, High School Sports, Injuries and Wounds
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Concussions: what those involved with high school athletics should know
The tragic consequences of repeated concussions in athletes has been in the news frequently in recent years as several thousand former NFL players and the families of players who have passed away prematurely sue the league for debilitating injuries...
Tags: Michigan High School Athletic Association, Health and Safety at School, High Schools, Education, Teaching and Learning
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