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Rawlings, Cleveland Clinic to Research Sports Concussions

Football helmet (Mel Rowling/Flickr)Rawlings, a sporting goods manufacturer in St. Louis, Missouri says it has joined with the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute in Cleveland, Ohio in an interdisciplinary research collaboration to study the causes of concussions along with other sports-related head and neck injuries.

Cleveland Clinic’s Spine Research Laboratory will conduct independent testing using research equipment manufactured and donated by Rawlings. The research will include examinations of protective headwear and accessories used in both baseball and football, measuring their ability to minimize the impacts felt at different levels of force and velocity as well as different angles of impact.

According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, emergency rooms in 2009 treated nearly 47,000 head injuries resulting from football and more than 38,000 head injuries for baseball and softball. Head injuries can result in concussions and other brain injuries leading to short-term medical issues such as headaches and blurred visions and contributing to long-term problems such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.

Photo: Mel Rowling/Flickr

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