Are high school girls’ lacrosse players at increased risk of concussion because they are not allowed to wear the same helmet boys’ lacrosse players are required to wear?

BACKGROUND: Boys’ lacrosse (LAX), a full contact sport allowing body and stick checking, mandates hard shell helmets with full face masks. Girls’ LAX, which prohibits body checking and whose sphere rule is supposed to prevent stick checking to the head, allows optional flexible headgear with/without...

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Autores principales: Comstock, R. Dawn, Arakkal, Alan T., Pierpoint, Lauren A., Fields, Sarah K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7232834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32418542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40621-020-00242-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7232834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32418542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40621-020-00242-5

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