
Sports-Related Brain Injury: It's not about the helmet.
And no helmet in the world is going to prevent the most common sports-induced brain injuries. That's just a fact. Scientists now know that brain injury occurs early from seemingly insignificant little hits happening over and over again, like the impact of heading the ball in soccer or taking a tackle in football. It's not just the concussions that leave players down and dazed. While major head impact can cause acute severe injury and death, the smaller impacts, called repetit