i9 Sports emphasizes Concussion Prevention tips
Every year, a startling half a million children go to the
emergency room with a concussion and the number of youth
concussions is rising at an alarming rate. With thousands of young
players starting soccer and football practice this week, a new
local movement called “Stop Youth Concussions Crusade” is sweeping
the sidelines of our city and the nation this week.
i9 Sports, the nation’s first and fastest growing youth sports
franchise with a league in your area is launching the “Stop Youth
Concussions Crusade” with a new youth concussion awareness
initiative.
To demonstrate the frightening force of a concussion, local
young athletes will hold visual demonstrations this week to launch
the crusade and demonstrate two types of concussion:
1) HEAD TO HEAD CONTACT – (demonstration with sledge hammer to
bricks)
Watch what happens when you take a sledge hammers to bricks.
This demonstrates the velocity and force of two NFL players hitting
head-to-head in a game. The force is not as strong when children
hit head – to head. But the concussion can still be as serious
because brains in children are even more vulnerable because they’re
still forming and not fully developed.
2) CONCUSSION WHEN THERE IS NO CONTACT (demonstration with
shaking eggs)
Concussions don’t have to come from contact and don’t have to
show a visual bruise or break. A concussion can occur when the head
is shaken or whiplashed. There may be no physical sign of injury
but the concussion can still be as serious. This is demonstrated
when you shake an egg yoke side to side in a glass. Think of the
brain as the yoke and the glass as the outside walls of the
cranium. If you shake the egg hard enough, the yolk will move from
side to side and when that happens in your skull, you’ll suffer a
concussion.
For more information, contact Graham Chapman
(gchapman@i9sports.com, 919-459-8157) or Sue Yannello
(suzy@i9sports.com, 919-459-8165).