text: I haven’t read the study yet, but am curious to see how many full contact practices and games the boys participated in, and how much of each practice was spent in tackle drills. My son’s group had 3 full contact practices per week and up to two games on Saturday (I suspect impacts were greater than 100 g … a number of boys weighed over 100 pounds, they were 8 & 9 year olds).
  SLI’s facebook page has a link to a story ESPN did on the youth impact study. Pop Warner may limit the amount of time spent on tackle drills. Unfortunately, I believe many feeder programs using school facilities don’t belong to either Pop Warner or USA Football.
  It seems that they need to take as many of the collisions out of practice as possible. Further rule adaptations seems another way they can help get traumatic brain injuries out of the game.
  One of the most important factors is training all of the coaches and parents on recognizing a concussion. Kids aren’t always the most honest when it comes to incriminating themselves as to having to sit on the bench of a week or two. Coaches and parents need to be aware of changes in players and not afraid to sit them out when suspecting a concussion.
  Thanks for posting this. If youth prgrams cannot afford ATs, maybe some ATs can volunteer their services pro bono like attorneys do?
  I would do it, except for the ugly liability issue… Even good intentions could be hammered by overzealous people…
  We already can not place an ATC at all high school games. Thinking that we could at the lower levels of contact football is unrealistic. Given that, and the fact that contact at this level serves no purpose (ie: does not lead to better high school or college players), the solution is to eliminate contact below high school. These children need to be taught the basic concepts of the game and having fun (ie: have the ball in their hands). Having young players slam into eachother on every play serves no purpose, is harmful, and is not fun for them.
  I read somewhere when a football player (I am assuming this article if I can remember was about the NFL Concussions)takes a hit to the head, the speeds can range between 17-215 mph and that translated into a g force of 98 g’s(or 98 times the force of gravity).
  1) With respect to rotational acceleration of the neck, in this article there refer rad/sec2. Could someone translate that into layparents language so non scientists who donot do this research can understand what this type of rotational force means?