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8 paź 2021 · Boys’ lacrosse teams nationwide have worn hard-shell helmets for decades but girls, who play by rules that generally forbid contact, have mostly spurned headgear. The Florida rule created an...
8 paź 2021 · Female high school lacrosse players are significantly less likely to sustain concussions and other injuries if they wear headgear, a landmark study led by University of Florida Health researchers has found.
Female high school lacrosse players are significantly less likely to sustain concussions and other injuries if they wear headgear, a landmark study led by University of Florida Health...
21 kwi 2022 · Florida began requiring helmets for all women’s high school lacrosse teams in 2015. Still, seven years later, Florida remains the only state that has mandated helmets for women’s lacrosse, even though a 2021 study demonstrated the reduced incidence of concussions in lacrosse in Florida relative to other states without a helmet mandate.
The primary aim of the recently completed study, funded jointly by USA Lacrosse and NOCSAE, was to examine concussion rates in female high school players when wearing versus not wearing headgear specifically designed for women’s lacrosse.
14 gru 2022 · The study compared concussion rates among players in Florida with rates observed in 31 other states. Florida was selected as the comparison benchmark because it is the only state in the US that mandates the use of helmets in high school girls’ lacrosse.
Headgear for girls has been mandated in Florida since 2015, and remains hotly debated. In 2015, without empirical evidence or data that supported the decision, Florida became the only state to require high school girls’ lacrosse teams to wear protective headgear.
