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SPORTS: MEDICINE :
SPORTS: INJURIES: PREVENTION:
UCLA Sports Medicine Takes Proactive Approach to Injury Prevention
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UCLA Sports Medicine Takes Proactive Approach to Injury Prevention
Trainers must contend with athletes false sense of security as protective
gear continues to improve
By ANDREW MONCADA
Published October 26, 2011, 12:55 am in Sports
Daily Bruin
University of California
Los Angeles
http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2011/10/
ucla_sports_medicine_takes_proactive_approach_to_injury_prevention
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In fall 1894, the Yale Bulldogs visited the Harvard Crimson for one of the
most violent football games ever played. Dressed in simple uniforms,
worn-down cleats and strips of leather around their heads, these Leather
Lids (a euphemism for football players back in those days) gathered at the
line of scrimmage for what would be known as the Bloodbath in Hampden
Park.
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While the Bulldogs came away with a 12-4 win, the game included a broken
leg, a shattered collarbone on a botched fair catch, crushed noses,
several head injuries and gouged eyes. Bulldog tackle Fred Murphy suffered
so many late hits that he had to be carried out on a stretcher, falling
into a coma that lasted several hours.
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Collegiate football turned more brutal as it entered the 20th century,
peaking in 1905 with a reported 137 serious injuries and 19 deaths.
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Even President Theodore Roosevelt intervened by bringing together Ivy
League representatives to identify ways to make the game less violent.
Soon there were stiffer penalties, the creation of the neutral zone to
give more space between opposing players, and the forward pass.
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But now consider the modern football helmet.
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Introduced by Illinois high school coach John Riddell in 1939, the helmet
was seen as revolutionary to the game of football. Its plastic shell
formed to the contours of the players head, the padding provided extra
cushioning on hard collisions and the facemask, introduced in 1940, meant
that the entire head was protected.
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No one, it seemed, would have to suffer any life-threatening injuries.
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The immediate impact was promising as head-related injuries began to
decrease. But as safety evolved, so did the style of the game.
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Fitted with more advanced equipment, players adopted almost an entirely
different game: Instead of laboring down in the trenches, players shot
around the field like torpedoes, launching themselves headfirst into the
opponent. Since the introduction of the modern helmet, fatal head injuries
have decreased but neck injuries have tripled, the rate of cervical spine
damage has doubled and concussions have steadily increased.
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The game was supposed to become safer, but it has actually gotten worse.
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People would like to say that helmets make the game safer and better. But
were talking about a hard shell that can only do so much to reduce impact
to the head, said Dr. Gerald Finerman, the head team physician for UCLA
Athletics.
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Instead of using helmets to protect themselves from hits, players feel
encouraged to hit even harder and engage in riskier behavior. This
phenomenon is known as risk compensation.
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It explains why automobile drivers tend to drive closer to a bicyclist
wearing a helmet than one who is not, why condoms havent reduced the
spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and why drivers with anti-lock
brakes are prone to speeding.
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