High Tech Helmets Reveal New Information About The Impact Of Hard Hits To The Head

In a game that spawned the term “slobber knocker,” is there a limit to the amount of impact a football player’s head can handle before the player suffers a concussion? The answer is yes … and no, say researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. High tech helmets worn by some University of North Carolina football players over the 2004 to 2006 seasons yielded new data that challenges conventional theories about these mild traumatic brain injuries. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Sports Medicine / Fitness on December 15th, 2007