High School Rules: New football regulations focus on concussions – MaxPreps News

BySteve Parker

New rules on helmet to helmet hits and chop blocking. As football programs at all levels are coming to understand the long-term effects of concussions and repeated contact to the head, it’s no surprise that the newest set of National Federation of State High School Associations football rules gives that issue the highest priority see…

NOCSAE Meets to Consider Sports Medicine Research Grants and Discuss Development… — CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —

BySteve Parker

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment NOCSAE meets today to consider hundreds of thousands of dollars in research grants specifically related to concussion – based on recommendations from the organizations new Scientific Advisory Committee, made up of the nations leaders in sports science.  NOCSAE…