Let's get the head further out of the game: A proposal for reducing brain injuries in helmeted contact sports

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-9

  Crisco, Joseph J ^a   Greenwald, Richard M ^b,c  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SIMBEX   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ATHLETE; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTACT SPORT; EQUIPMENT; HELMET; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NOTE; POLICY; SPORT INJURY; UNITED STATES; EDITORIAL; FOOTBALL; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SPORT; SURVIVAL RATE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; FOOTBALL; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HOCKEY; HUMANS; MALE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955663279     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e318205e063     Document Type: Note

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