{"id":10859,"date":"2013-07-27T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/concussion-study-makes-case-for-reducing-contact-drills-for-youth-players\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:58","slug":"concussion-study-makes-case-for-reducing-contact-drills-for-youth-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/concussion-study-makes-case-for-reducing-contact-drills-for-youth-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Concussion Study Makes Case for Reducing Contact Drills for Youth Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-link field-field-link-original-article\">Youth football players are not more vulnerable to head hits in games if they take part in fewer contact drills during practices, a\u00a0<a title=\"Youth football study\" href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs10439-013-0867-6\">new study published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering<\/a>\u00a0showed.<\/div>\n<p>The study, conducted by researchers from the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, comes amid a debate over how much practice is needed to prepare young players to protect themselves during games and to block and tackle in a safe way.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s conclusion \u2014 that the amount of practice does not influence the number of head hits absorbed during games \u2014 may bolster calls to reduce the frequency of contact drills in youth football leagues. N.F.L., college and high school teams have already\u00a0<a title=\"Reduced contact in practices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/20\/sports\/ncaafootball\/college-football-to-protect-players-ivy-league-to-reduce-contact.html?_r=0\">scaled back the number of contact drills in practices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/26\/sports\/football\/concussion-study-makes-case-to-curb-practice-hits-for-youth-players.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth football players are not more vulnerable to head hits in games if they take part in fewer contact drills during practices, a\u00a0new study published in the Annals of Biomedical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}