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Commentary on "The effect of protective headgear on head injuries and concussions in adolescent football (soccer) players"
Accident and Emergency Department, Bahrain Defense Force Hospital, Riffa, Kingdom of Bahrain; fabuzeyad@hotmail.com
The effect of protective headgear on head injuries and concussions in adolescent football (soccer) players
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This article is the first study to examine the effects of football (soccer) headgear outside of the laboratory setting. Similar to what had been proposed by Withnall et al1 from their biomechanical research, this study showed that headgear can decrease the occurrence of concussions in an adolescent football population. The article also provided proof for what may have been intuitive to some; that this headgear reduces the occurrence of lacerations and abrasions over those areas covered by the headgear. While it is the first study to examine protective effects of football headgear, it produced other results that support past research, for example, female football players are probably more at risk for concussion than male football players and most concussions go unrecognized and undiagnosed in an athletic population. While the study is limited by its retrospective design, the authors were prudent to conduct a study of this nature before commencing a
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