Young hockey players who keep their heads up and brace themselves as they anticipate collisions really can reduce the severity of head impacts, as coaches say, a study of boys wearing special helmets has found.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls traumatic brain injury a serious public health problem in the U.S., where children under age 15 account for about 40 per cent of the 1.1 million such injuries that send people to hospital emergency rooms each year.
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