Safety First – Teaching safe tackling technique can reduce head and neck injuries and help protect the game’s future.
by Steve Dorsey
In the past 35 years, two-thirds of football-related catastrophic injuries have occurred while making a tackle, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina. Most of these were caused by helmet-to-helmet contact. “This is a major problem,” said Fred Mueller, Ph.D., director of the NCCSIR, which has collected data and published annual reports on catastrophic football injuries for 48 years.
Dr. Mueller said head-to-he
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