Are high school girls' lacrosse players at increased risk of concussion because they are not allowed to wear the same helmet boys' lacrosse players are required to wear?

• Main Authors: R. Dawn Comstock (Author), Alan T. Arakkal (Author), Lauren A. Pierpoint (Author), Sarah K. Fields (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: BMC, 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Boys' lacrosse (LAX), a full contact sport allowing body and stick checking, mandates hard shell helmets with full face masks. Girls' LAX, which prohibits body checking and whose sphere rule is supposed to prevent stick checking to the head, allows optional flexible hea...