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 ...

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 ...

A first-of-its-kind football ... helmet, which was developed in conjunction with communications giant AT&T, aims to address another of those long-standing problems: Coaches calling plays to the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Repeated head knocks – like those sustained in boxing and American ... embedded in helmets, mouth guards and shoulder pads to try to reduce injuries among American football players.

That's because all but one of the players on the Gallaudet University American football team, in Washington, are all deaf or hard of hearing.

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 ...