Improvement in Football Helmet Technology

#1 The great American football is full of exciting competition, but do we realize the danger! Helmet safety in football remains an immense problem as the sport accounts for the highest incidence of concussions. Since leather football helmets, the technology for safer football helmets has improved drastically and continue to improve. The development of newly designed helmets and technology has lowered the risk of head injuries for players. Furthermore, improvements in helmet testing methods have led

in the Design of Football Helmets: Importance of helmets in concussion Prevention By: Luc E. Desroches 5/7/15  Introduction American football has been around for over one hundred years, and along with the sport has been the need to provide proper safety for the players. An assortment of padding has been instituted in the game that protects against most blunt trauma including blows to the shoulders, mid section, and legs. In an attempt to prevent fracture of the skull, helmets were designed. However

Traumatic brain injuries are on the rise in the National Football League and other football leagues worldwide. Research has increased over the years and researchers have begun to notice changes in the players minds. Due to the repeated head trauma, players often lose value in living and sometimes resort to suicide. New helmet technology and rules have been put in place, but more can be done because there is a connection between concussions and suicides. The NFL is trying to make the games safer,

Partica Paper #2 10/16/14 The Evolution of Football Helmets: Decreasing Traumatic Brain Injuries Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) have always been a problem in sports and especially in contact sports like football. Since the beginning of football there has been different styles of head protection, from no helmets at all in very early stages to the modern day helmets we have today. In order to know how the evolution of the football helmet has made head injuries less common than they

The product is an improvement on the exisiting Nike Gridiron Shield, which clips on to a football player’s helmet. The new product will be called the “Nike Gridiron Transition Shield,” because the company wanted to keep the name similar to the exisiting product name, since there is already a market for the. The new shield will utilize technology commonly used in eyewear that shields the sun's rays by quickly adjusting and adapting in changing light for better eyesight and in the case for our atheletes

professionals and football players go hand and hand. Without Sports Medicine professionals, football players could not perform their job. Without Sports Medicine professionals, there would not be as many healthy athletes, as coaches and players would have greater opportunities to abuse recovery, causing players to ultimately get injured even further.  Over time, research in the Sports Medicine field, especially pertaining to concussions, has improved the overall health and injury recovery of football players

Football is game of speed, strength, and strategy. The best way to be a better player is working on becoming bigger and stronger while maintaining the speed, but when the players mass, strength, and speed all get better the forces the can produce a greater force with their hits. According to Timothy Gay, Physics professor at the University of Nebraska and author of The Physics of Football, a Defensive Back at the average one-hundred and ninety pounds that runs a 4.56 forty-yard dash can produce sixteen-hundred

has recently became more popular in the news. Mukand and Serra recently discovered, “about 1.6- 3.8 million sports-related concussions occur every year, and a recent study found that 182,000 football players may sustain at least one concussion annually in youth (99,000), high school (76,640), and NCAA football programs (3,905), or about 1 in 30 players and 1 in 14 high school players” (16). The amount of concussions should be alarming to athletes and the parents. Hospitals have noticed a growing number

reduced in the players. Players will additionally be less inclined to receive insurance money after an injury, which usually is a finical loss in the NFL. However many sports analysts all have a concern that our society will lose interest and that football will die out due to the extensive rules that have been placed to prevent injuries. If new rules and equipment are introduced in the NFL, current players won’t be forced to retire after injuries they sustained during their career. In Christopher

the football players from having so many concussion issue is fixing the layout on how a helmet is made or either improve the type of materials are made with to lessen the amount of pressure the brain receives after a hit. Researchers are in shock because they are not receiving enough accreditation about how they makes helmets they believe that football would be even worser if they didn't have the improved way of technology has improved the current equipment. Even though concussions and helmets don't