Health & Safety

The National Federation of State High School Association has approved changes strengthening the language of rules on dangerous hits and to give game officials discretion to penalize a player who illegally hits another player from behind with a game misconduct if the hit is deemed flagrant.

Outsmarting or "sandbagging" a baseline neuropsychological test is much harder than an athlete may think, say two recent studies, because they are programmed to automatically "flag" test protocols that seem suspicious.

The Riddell InSite Impact Response System is a new integrated monitoring and alerting tool designed specifically for the proactive protection of football players based on its Head Impact Telemetry System (HITS) and Sideline Response System (SRS) which have analyzed nearly 1.8+ million impacts since 2003.

With a focus on cutting edge technology for the sports market, i1 Biometrics is tackling the head injury epidemic, head on. Our state-of-the-art Vector Mouthguard can instantly track and tally the cumulative forces of collisions as they happen during all levels of competition.

The Shockbox helmet sensor is designed to give parents, trainers, coaches and team doctors a set of electronic of eyes with which to watch out for concussions that might otherwise go undetected, measuring the g-force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and triggering an alert on a laptop or iPad on the sports sideline when the athlete suffers a head impact that may of sufficient force to be concussive so they can be assessed for possible concussion.

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of sudden death in exercising young athletes, but despite data showing that early defibrillation with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) can save nearly two-thirds of student-athletes who suffer SCA, many U.S. high schools are not prepared to respond to an SCA or have significant deficiencies that could be improved, a new study finds.

There is good news and bad news in a new study on exertional heat illness in high school sports: the bad news is that the rate for football players is 11 times higher that of all other sports combined. The good news is that, despite a rash of heat-related deaths (6 in 2011 alone, all in football), the overall rate of EHI across all high school sports is low and dropping.

An overwhelming majority of parents and teachers want health classes and physical education to be mandatory parts of the schoolday, says a 2013 survery. The problem is that a significant number of schools don't offer health classes. And many schools that do have health and PE classes are not devoting enough time to the subjects or teaching them effectively.

Sending your child off to summer camp comes with a whole new set of worries and concerns for any parent. An identification bracelet designed especially for summer camp is one way to put your mind at ease while giving your child something cool to show off.

With over 30,000 deaths monthly worldwide, drowning is the 3rd leading cause of accidental injury or death. The key to drowning prevention is teaching kids to be water-safe when they are infants, says a four-time Olympic swimming gold medalist.