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Safe Tackling, Padded Helmets Lower Head Injuries in Youth Football

March 4, 2020 sarah Jonas Brain Injuries, Concussions, Football, traumatic brain injuries, youth football

Middle school football players greatly reduce the chance of head injuries if they wear padded helmets and use safe tackling and blocking techniques, according to Rutgers researchers.

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Nanospirals that form as molten metals solidify could be key to new materials—and even invisibility

January 31, 2020 sarah Jonas Concussions, Diagnostics, Lasers, OPTICS

Humans have been cooling metal mixtures from liquid to solid for thousands of years. But surprisingly, not much is known about exactly what happens during the process of solidification. Particularly puzzling is the solidification of eutectics, which are mixtures of two or more solid phases.

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Multi-institutional team to study effects of age, gender on brain injury mechanics

September 20, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Concussions, CTE, Domestic Abuse, Football, Neurology, Sports

A team of researchers, led by Philip V. Bayly in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, plans to use MRI to study the brains of healthy, uninjured individuals to create models of brain motion to enable the researchers to predict the chronic effects of repeated head impacts in both men and women.