Concussions are common in many sports, though perhaps most visibly and controversially in American football. Particularly in recent years, there has been an increased push to address the risk of ...

A great example of this is a story that appeared in an American ... the field now that players were being given modern helmets with plastic facemasks to wear. The ‘Dirty Football Player ...

Nearly one third of concussions in professional American ... Football League (NFL) that measured head motion and found that facemasks are the most frequent location of impact on a player's helmet ...

Repeated head knocks – like those sustained in boxing and American ... embedded in helmets, mouth guards and shoulder pads to try to reduce injuries among American football players.

But the handful of published studies that have tested the caps on college football players running drills have failed to find any benefit compared with helmets ... NFL says at face value ...

In one of the most brutal collisions of the college football season ... who grabs the running back's face mask. Spinning out of the grab was Cooley, with his helmet starting to come loose.