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 ...

Millions of people in the US are concussed every year playing sports. Players of games like American football are at particularly high risk for injuries that can have devastating long-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"but until I can put every player in one of these helmets — and who knows 20 years from now if this is something that will be used at every level of football — it’s just gonna help bridge ...

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.

A first-of-its-kind football helmet will allow coaches at Gallaudet ... INSKEEP: The coach is also realistic about the challenges that players face. GOLDSTEIN: There will never be a level playing ...

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 ...