Football's trauma center
Http://www.peutereyset.com it begins with "WARNING" and ends eerily: "No helmet system can protect you from serious brain and/or neck injuries, including paralysis or death. To avoid these risks, do not engage in the sport of football,
Never have the risks been more in the public eye than now, following the suicide of former AllPro linebacker Junior Seau in the spring.
Seau's death, which occurred less than three years after his 20year NFL career ended, is the latest in a string of highly publicized deaths of former pro football players who suffered concussions during their playing days.
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When Seau took a shotgun to his chest on May 2, Pop Warner Little Scholars the largest youth football program in the world with 250,000 players already was preparing new rules to cut back on contact in practice and thus reduce the risk of concussions.
An annual survey of football injuries by the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research found that three of the four deaths directly related to football in the United States last year were a result of brain injuries. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, meanwhile,http://www.peutereyset.com/peuterey-matisov-herren-jacke-c-388.html, estimates that 300,000 footballrelated concussions occur in the nation each year.
He was out for about two weeks because of the brain injury but will return this season.
"It's pretty dangerous, Billie said. "It's been kind of brushed aside and taken lightly for a long time. People didn't understand how serious it can be. I'm glad that's becoming more apparent to people, and people are being educated about the dangers,
Entering a new football season practice begins next month most coaches in Berkshire County agree that education is the key to preventing concussions, yet mandating training classes has been a slow process.
That crawl has been especially noticeable at football's entry level.
There are no education requirements for dealing with the injury in the Berkshire Youth Football Asso ciation, an allvolunteer organization that encompasses the nine youth leagues (ages 6 to 14) across the county but which is not part of Pop Warner.
A Massachusetts state law requires high schools to train coaches and other school officials on head injuries, but that legislation doesn't extend to youth leagues.
Dr. Ellen Deibert, a neurologist who said she sees about 200 complex concussion cases at her Pittsfield practice each year, said the Massachusetts legislation has forced public schools to tackle the issue headon.
She said the youth leagues should follow this example.
"Youth leagues, which have not had Dan Hogan
to follow the state law, they're far behind in their education the education of their coaches, Deibert said. "I would say it's more likely for me to have a player get accidentally put back into play who's had a concussion in the youthleague sort of scenario. more so than our public schools right now,
Deibert has been a part of Berkshire Medical Center's neurology division since 2003 and started Berkshire Health System's Comprehensive Brain Injury program in 2007. "Not every coach and every program was as committed as I would've liked. One of the things I hope is continuing, we were headed in the direction of making it a requirement that at least one coach [per team] has this kind of certification,
New BYFA commissioner Dan Hogan said the organization for the past 15 years has required equipment to be inspected by sportinggoods companies such as Stadium System Inc. in Canaan, Conn, but he acknowledged there is no mandate
for concussion education.
Hogan, a chief engineer at General Dynamics, said he strongly encourages coaches to take advantage of programs through Indianapolisbased USA Football and plans to emphasize concussion education in the BYFA's preseason coaches' meeting on Aug. 10.
"Getting constant exposure to that is a good thing, Hogan said. "We could be moving toward the point that [any coaches who have] registered have been exposed to that,
To this point, education as well as regulations regarding concussions has been hit and miss. Still, Hogan said there are encouraging signs among leagues in the BYFA.
"I see it in the equipment they buy, he said. "I've seen coaches go out of the way to take kids out of the game, even if there are boos from parents,
Hogan said the BYFA doesn't track concussions or other injuries. He said, however, that no concussions were reported to the league last season and that he plans to discuss injury tracking during the meeting next month
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