Doing Everything Possible to Reduce Preventable Risk Youth sports should be about confidence, competition, teamwork, and the joy of playing. As parents, coaches, league leaders, and athletes, we all want the same thing: to keep kids in the game while doing everything possible to reduce preventable risk. One rare but serious risk that has gained… Continue reading Why Prevention Belongs on Every Safety Checklist
Lacrosse is fast, physical, and full of split-second moments. That is part of what makes the sport great. But as the game has gotten faster and the athletes have gotten stronger, protective equipment has had to evolve too. One of the most important advances in recent years has been the requirement for lacrosse chest protection… Continue reading Why Pad Placement Matters
On Jan. 2, the entire sporting world held its breath when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field during a Week 17 matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals. In solidarity, legendary NHL defenceman Chris Pronger offered an intimate and detailed account of his own experience with the phenomenon through a Twitter thread on Wednesday.… Continue reading Chris Pronger recounts same injury suffered by Damar Hamlin (Video)
Sports medicine specialist Dr. Kody Moffatt knows how seeing Damar Hamlin collapse in cardiac arrest on "Monday Night Football" has frightened parents of young athletes. "Almost every family that I've seen in clinic since Tuesday morning has asked about this," said Moffatt, division chief of sports medicine at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha,… Continue reading After Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest, attention turns to chest pads for young athletes
Dr. Chad Stephens is an interventional pain and sports medicine specialist who says players can prepare for such a blow to the chest with protective undergarments. “I feel like that is something we should go back to thinking about to protect our athletes from these unexpected, unknown and unpredictable events that happen,” Stephens said. Stephens… Continue reading Sports medicine specialist advocates for protective shirt (Video)
Watch the video story and recreation of the Peter Laake commotio cordis event, superbly created by The American Heart Association
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Mark Link, a professor of medicine and director of cardiac electrophysiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a nationally recognized expert in commotio cordis, has partnered with a sports gear company called Unequal Technologies to create new and more effective protection from the hazard. They’ve spent nearly five years developing a chest guard… Continue reading High-tech chest protector thwarts sudden death in young athletes.
Patrick Plunkett, 12, survives an often-fatal strike to the chest. Patrick watched as the low pitch ended up over the middle of the plate, not inside like he had hoped. The batter crushed the ball, sending a line drive straight back at Patrick, hitting him in the chest. He fell limp to the mound. His… Continue reading A pitch, a hit, and a miracle
On the morning of March 29 at Klein Park, in the fifth inning of a 13U tournament game between the Houston Warriors and the Katy (Texas) Invaders, Walker threw a changeup, and a Katy hitter lined it up the middle. The ball struck Walker on the chest, over his left ventricle, and he fell to… Continue reading Boy comes back wearing Unequal after commotio cordis (Video)
