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The Effect Of Headgear In Soccer

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Many parents, including mine, are becoming weary of their children playing soccer. This sport, just like football, is gaining this reputation because of the risk of concussions from heading the ball. Also, like football, there is equipment being developed to make this sport safer. Instead of helmets, it is headbands to reduce the impact from the ball. In Delaney’s study on the effect of headgear in soccer, he showed showed how this protective equipment in soccer does a lot to help prevent against concussions (Delaney) There were a couple different results that he found in this study showing this. One of these results was that wearing headgear decreased the risk of suffering a concussion on a head to head impact 32.6 percent (Delaney). This
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