Hello to all, and happy new year. One of the hot topics that has been mentioned throughout this past season is concussions. We have seen concussions affect every level of the game from the youth guys all the way to the NFL. USA Football works hand-in-hand with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop helpful information about this issue.USA Football has created a concussion awareness policy that will be distributed throughout the football community. Take a look at this article written by The Associated Press about our work in this area. Check it out.
If you watch The Today Show occasionally, you may be familiar with Alison Rhodes, the “Safety Mom.” She appears on this program frequently as a national child safety expert. Alison recently wrote about USA Football’s concussion awareness work in her blog too.
USA Football’s members are youth football coaches, players, commissioners and game officials who live in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This past August, the NFL, the NFLPA and each of the league’s 32 teams named USA Football as their official youth football development partner. Grassroots football had a great year in 2009 and USA Football is working to make 2010 even better. Stay in touch with me and www.usafootball.com to keep up with the latest in our game.
With 2010 just kicking off, we all have some type of resolution that we may or may not keep. I will be keeping mine this year for the first time in a while mainly because it is football-related. My resolution is to travel far and wide to find out all I can about the Wildcat Offense. It has become a pain in my backside, and I have had enough. As a defensive guy, I find it very helpful to go and learn about the offense that gives me problems. I find that the more I know about the scheme, the more comfortable I become in defending it.
Feel free to share your New Year’s resolutions with me. If you are anything like me, the New Year’s resolution becomes a vague memory very soon after the beginning of the New Year.
Dwayne “Deno” Campbell not only enjoys football – he lives his life around it. By day, he works as the South and Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager for USA Football, the official youth football development partner of the NFL and NFL Players Association. When night falls, Deno hits the field as the assistant head coach/defensive coordinator at DeMatha Catholic High School, which is consistently ranked in the USA TODAY Super 25 high school football rankings. He was a Stag himself earning All-Met honors his senior year before earning a full scholarship to suit up at the College of William & Mary as a linebacker. Deno, also a member of the DeMatha Hall of Fame, is now in his 23rd season coaching at his alma mater and was named DCSportsfan.com’s Assistant High School Coach of the Year in 2008.
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Hello,
I’m a mother of a 16year old son who loves football and basketball.
His last season he had suffered his 2nd GRADE 3 CONCUSSION in a 11 month period.
He was being told that if he got one more concussion, he would never be able to play sports again. I started to do major research on concussions and mouth guards when I came across your website. My son was fitted for a Maher mouth guard right before the football season begun. In the first game he was hit very hard and as a mom.I was holding my breath to see if he had to come out of the game. He got right up and continued playing. After the game I asked him about that hit and he said “Mom I can’t believe I didn’t feel a thing”
Which ,as the season continued, he said it has helped unbelievable! I have parents coming to talk to me when their child gets a concussion to see what I have learned and what steps for protection I have taken. I truly believe that the Maher mouth guard is 100% the reason my son can continue to play sports. Thank you!
Roseann Taylor
Lombard , IL
roseann@prismhealthcaregroup.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-duffy/the-nfl-can-help-prevent_b_351212.html
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/story/1552026.html
The question remains, Why do only some players become prone to concussion, while others have seemingly no problems. A protocol now under review by Congress and the U.S. Military may hold the answer. A simple evaluation of the head neck and jaw, developed for boxers and fine tuned with the N.E. Patriots has now been recognized in a journal publication peer reviewed by the Academy of Sports Dentistry. Most team dentist look to the Academy for the latest accredited medical innovations. A NATA accredited athletic trainers workshop has now been developed for the purpose of teaching trainers how to evaluate players for these head and neck issues. http://www.mahercor.com has more info on this very important issue.