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Can you imagine the carnage if Nika wore a helmet? LOL!!!!
Dailey mentioned in a presser that the team had started doing neck exercises.I don't think the concussion problem is that wide spread in basketball from contact with other players. The concussions I have seen have been when the head hits the hardwood floor. Since UCONN is the one having these issues maybe they need to take a look at their workouts and see if something could be changed there to help.
The other thing is once a person has a serious concussion they are very susceptible to more concussions with lesser impacts. The main thing is to make sure you don't come back to soon.
I may be in the minority, but if it's legal, and sanctioned by the NCAA, and one or more of our players could really use one, I say go for it. I don't think it's funny at all. I'm not laughing. I really don't care how it looks. Concussions are not funny, especially if YOU'VE had one.I previously posted this a few weeks back, since a thread was created specifically on headgear let me try again here.
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An important finding in the study was that females suffered concussions at more than twice the rate of males.Here is a study from Wisconsin University regarding protective headgear and concussions. Although the study relates to soccer specifically, I would imagine that the findings would be quite the same for basketball.
- News - School of Medicine and Public Health
www.med.wisc.edu
Thats cuz boys play games where they fall down a lot and and know how not to bang their heads. Also boys have stronger necks, backs and cores.An important finding in the study was that females suffered concussions at more than twice the rate of males.
Most of the hits were in games, not practice.I don't think the concussion problem is that wide spread in basketball from contact with other players. The concussions I have seen have been when the head hits the hardwood floor. Since UCONN is the one having these issues maybe they need to take a look at their workouts and see if something could be changed there to help.
The other thing is once a person has a serious concussion they are very susceptible to more concussions with lesser impacts. The main thing is to make sure you don't come back to soon.
I've said this several times after someone breaks a hand or wrist trying to break a fall. I had to learn to roll after suffering a few shoulder dislocations from putting my arms out front of me while falling.I know this is gonna sound strange but instead of helmets or head pads what the girls need is lessons in judo to teach them how to fall without banging their heads. Ive played many different sports including tackle football and had some martial art lessons and learning to fall the right way has kept me from getting concussions plus broken wrists or arms.
Maybe a complete bodywrap would help with recurring full chest bumps.I see the potential for NIL deals here. Perhaps a helmet endorsed by a physical player. Maybe players buying "the Nika!" helmet! Ha!
Here is a study from Wisconsin University regarding protective headgear and concussions. Although the study relates to soccer specifically, I would imagine that the findings would be quite the same for basketball.
- News - School of Medicine and Public Health
www.med.wisc.edu
Yes!These don't look so bad?
I will yield to the experts, but I don't see how neck muscles help when you crack your head on the court after a fall. Your skull is still making violent contact with a rock-like surface. Unless, the is that you have better head control with a stronger neck, and can prevent it from smashing into the floor. Who knows? But I did read that women take far longer to recover from concussions than men. Caroline is evidence of that as well.Dailey mentioned in a presser that the team had started doing neck exercises.
Strengthening the neck muscles can reduce concussions
Womens neck muscles can be weaker than mens.
This type certainly makes more sense. It's protective, yet not a weapon.I previously posted this a few weeks back, since a thread was created specifically on headgear let me try again here.
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Neck exercises may not help if you hit your head on the floor, but they help prevent hitting your head on the floor.I will yield to the experts, but I don't see how neck muscles help when you crack your head on the court after a fall. Your skull is still making violent contact with a rock-like surface. Unless, the is that you have better head control with a stronger neck, and can prevent it from smashing into the floor. Who knows? But I did read that women take far longer to recover from concussions than men. Caroline is evidence of that as well.
Yep, the conclusions are only as good as the design of the experiment.I have questions about this study.
1. They had 88 schools with girls teams and divided them in half. But they don't report the number of active athletes in each group. (But the original article did.)
2. Many soccer players sit out whole games, some play a few minutes in a game, so game+practice minutes could vary widely amongst the players. The rate of concussions per active minute would be a useful stat, and since they "used licensed medical professionals in the field to record the onset" they should have been able to provide that information.
3. The headline touts "does not prevent", but this quote appears in the body of the article: "the rate of a sport-related concussions sustained by male and female players wearing specific headgear models varied a great deal. The authors found that the rate of these injuries ranged from 2.7% to 5.9% depending on the type of headgear worn by the players." (emphasis mine).
4. The original article provided rates per 1000 "Athletic Exposures (AE)", but didn't define that term. Some could have been 1 minute, some 80 minutes.
I found the article, so here's the full quote for point 3: "Overall, the SRC incidence ranged from 2.5% (HR: 0.54 (0.20–1.43), p=0.213) for players wearing the Storelli ExoShield to 5.4% (HR: 1.09 (0.62–1.91), p=0.765) for players wearing the Ultra Forcefield Sweatband." (emphasis mine)
In other words, the results for the random mix of head gear (each girl got to choose which of the 5 models in the study they wanted to wear) was "no difference from no head gear", but different models had different results. Not a very useful result, and does not, IMO, justify the claim of "does not prevent" without giving many qualifications that the study report does not present.