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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is actually a news article about a study just published in the journal Radiology. The study compared adult female amateur soccer players to adult male amateur soccer players. Real science was done (unfortunately not on youth players) but one can likely extrapolate.[/quote]

What I'm saying is it's a single study. Any scientist would say one study is not enough. I read another article that showed males as having an initial better acute response, but females as having a better longer term response and that by the end of a month, impact was the same.

And there is a solution for concerned players and parents: concussion headbands. If you won't concede the headband, then you just like having something to be anxious about. [/quote]

Can you point to reputable studies quantifying the the effectiveness of headbands?[/quote]

1.  The Efficacy of Soccer Headgear (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC233175/)

"All 3 headbands were effective at reducing the peak impact force. The Protector headband appeared the most effective at reducing time to peak force and impulse within the design of this study. The clinical effectiveness of these products remains to be seen."

FYI:  "In all age groups, however, proper heading technique is the athlete's greatest defense against injury from heading a ball."

2.  Va Tech just published online an extensive study of ~25 different forms of headgear:  https://www.beam.vt.edu/helmet/soccer-headgear-ratings.html
"Laboratory testing determined that better models reduce impact forces by more than 50 percent and concussion risk by more than 70 percent."

3.  "Evidence Mounts for Headgear in Soccer":  not a true study, but a good summary article
"FIFA researchers outfitted crash test dummy heads with various types of soccer headgear. Earlier studies had showed that soccer players' heads sometimes collide at speeds up to 2.5 m/s. So the researchers dropped one dummy head against another at approximately that speed. They found that the headgear reduced peak linear acceleration by about a third"

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