Change in Practice Structure Can Reduce High-Magnitude Head Impacts (IMAGE)

Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group

Change in Practice Structure Can Reduce High-Magnitude Head Impacts

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In each 90-minute practice session, teams spent an average of 50 minutes practicing drills. A 10-minute reduction split between Tackling, Blocking, and Offense vs Defense drills would result in a 38 percent decrease in high-magnitude head impacts over the course of the season. The pie charts represent the proportion of the 50 minutes on average of practice time that were spent in each drill.

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