Call for End to High-Impact Youth Football Drills

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The results of a study of youth football players conducted by Virginia Tech in conjunction with Wake Forest are drawing attention to how practice drills are conducted. The study, published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, used helmets embedded with sensors to track hits among a team of 7- and 8-year-old players and found that some of the hits were as strong as those experienced by college players. Unlike college and high school players, however, the frequency of severe hits was higher during practice than during games.

2_22VTFootball.jpg2_22VTFootball.jpgDirected by Stefan Duma of Virginia Tech (pictured), the study used sensor-embedded helmets to collect data among youth players. Photo Courtesy Jim Stroup / Virginia Tech

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