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Rawlings Football Helmet Contest!

Is your high school football program in the market for some new helmets for the 2013 season? To promote the recent release of our new high school football concussion documentary, "The Smartest Team." MomsTEAM is running a contest for 38 brand new, 2012 Rawlings adult football helmets left over from the filming of movie.
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Brooke de Lench
Brooke de Lench

Buyer Beware (Part Two): NFHS Has NOT Endorsed Use of Football Helmet Covers As Reducing Concussion Risk

Submitted by Brooke de Lench on Sun, 09/16/2012 - 17:28. | 0 comments

In recent weeks I have written a number of blogs about claims by equipment manufacturers that their products prevent or reduce the risk of concussions.  

First, it was to call attention to a settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Brain Pad, a mouth guard manufacturer, barring the company from claiming that its mouthguard reduced the risk of concussion.

Next, it was to deconstruct some carefully-worded claims in a press release by a company named Unequal Technologies touting supplemental helmet protective pads utilizing so-called CRT (concussion reduction technology).

Beware of claims that external football helmet pads, now permitted in high school football, actually prevent or reduce the risk of concussion, says MomsTEAM founder, Brooke de Lench.
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Brooke de Lench
Brooke de Lench

Heads Up: Recent Developments in Sports Safety

Submitted by Brooke de Lench on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 13:39. | 0 comments
Three hot topics are on my mind today: wearable technology, head impact sensors, and football helmets.

Wearable technology

During the past year, I have been invited many times to participate in conversations about wearable technology for athletes. With our headquarters close to the hotbeds of technology centers of MIT and Harvard, I am often asked to sit in on meetings to provide my insight.

What I know is that this is a rapidly-developing field in which we are going to see some amazing technological advances in the next decade.

Three hot topics are on my mind today: wearable technology, head impact sensors, and football helmets.
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