Concussions are common in many sports, though perhaps most visibly and controversially in American football. Particularly in recent years, there has been an increased push to address the risk of ...

An innovative new helmet design protects football players from the concussions that ... the brain that is experienced during all kinds of American football impacts.” “The next step for our ...

But the handful of published studies that have tested the caps on college football players running drills have failed to find any benefit compared with helmets ... NFL says at face value ...

As a former football ... to the players' face guards, where there's no protection from the cap, Cecchi and Camarillo said. The study also did not control for different types of helmets the ...

Nearly one third of concussions in professional American ... Football League (NFL) that measured head motion and found that facemasks are the most frequent location of impact on a player's helmet ...

A great example of this is a story that appeared in an American ... the field now that players were being given modern helmets with plastic facemasks to wear. The ‘Dirty Football Player ...

Several NFL players wore helmets with extra padding, called ‘Guardian Caps’, in games for the first time on Sunday in the latest move by the league to safeguard against future concussions.

What if it’s to remove helmets altogether? The A7FL’s logic is that without helmets, football players tackle more like rugby players, with proper form that spares their heads from concussions ...

N.F.L. players who wear dreadlocks risk being tackled by their hair and face helmet-fitting challenges ... Dreadlocks are nothing new in football, where 58 percent of the league’s players ...

Sportshour's year of inspiration The $50,000 Spike Lee Air Jordans that are a force for good in Portland Chuck Goldstein tells us how a 5G connected football helmet is helping him communicate with ...