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Protecting the base of the skull and TMJ with dual arch technology
Football Coach Daily Share

Even with heightened attention on sports injuries, the prevalence of injuries
caused by impacts to the jaw or chin is often overlooked and outright ignored.
Protective equipment exists today that greatly reduces the forces transmitted
to the base of the skull and TMJ. In nearly two decades and three independent
biomechanical studies sponsored by NFL Charities and National Operating
Committee for Standards in Athletic Equipment in 1993, one performed by
Wayne State in 2005 and a study fully funded by the NFL with Biokinetics in
2011, the relative effectiveness of the dual arch mouth guard (more properly
identified as a "jaw-joint protector" as opposed to a "mouth guard" for
protecting teeth) was well established. More

- United States Airforce Article -
5th Medical Operations Squadron:
"Mouth guards also safeguard against serious injuries, such
as jaw fractures, cerebral hemorrhages, concussion and
neck injuries by helping to avoid situations where the lower jaw
jams into the upper jaw.
According to the CDC, mouth guards may prevent
200,000 oral injuries a year, reduce the risk
of concussion 50 percent and prevent
injury to the teeth by 60 percent."

‘It’s the Concussion Crisis, Stupid’
"The root problem is that there’s no such thing
as a concussion-proof football helmet..."(read more)

TMJ Dis-orders: Overview
Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD)

Mouth guards and Contact sports:
"...The mandible is connected to the rest of the
skull by the temporalmandibular joint (TMJ),
a powerful hinge mechanism...In sports such
as ice hockey and American football, blows to
the underside of the chin are common. These
may lead to concussions, as the TMJ is driven
upward and backward by the mandible.
A protective mouth guard has been proven an
effective form of protection from the consequences
of these blows, as the mouth guard tends to
prevent the lower jaw from being forced back
into the skull.".
http://www.faqs.org/contrib

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tom Udall, D-NM, is asking
the Consumer Product Safety Commission(CPSC) to
investigate football helmet safety standards,
especially for high school and younger athletes,
to prevent concussions and other head injuries...
...the second leading cause of traumatic brain injury
for people who are 15 to 24-years-old.

Brain injuries are common among 87% of all...?

An Athlete is 60 times more likely to sustain
damage to the ( _____ ) when not wearing
a protective (_____) guard?

Football players with a 1st brain injury/concussion
are (_____) times as likely to sustain a new injury?
More Factoids here:
Concussion Facts for Parents
and their active sports kids

“Athletes who have already suffered a
concussion — as well as their coaches and parents —
may be particularly susceptible to misleading
marketing claims about helmet safety.”

"....The estimated 500,000 concussions sustained
annually by those youngsters have become
a pressing health concern in football."
Senator Calls for Helmet Safety Investigation

Center for TMJ & Sleep Therapy:
TMJ Disorders - Overview

Excellent Video News Report:
" H.S. Football players studied with sensored helmets:
Results showed Impact Head Injuries without suffering
a Medically Defined Concussion or
a noticeable Concussive Incident. ".

Brain Pad Inc
Announces Results of Drop Testing
and TMJ/Head Protection

Three concussions over 10 months

Brain-Pads Keeps Athletes Safe . . .
from: ArticlesBase.com/brainpads

NFL looking for safer helmet

Bryant Gumble: H.S. Concussions article

A Child's LifeSaver - A Protective Mouth Guard

Every coach Every Player

ATHLETES Turn to BRAIN-PAD

ncaa.org - Sports/Medicine Handbook

JCDA Published Report -
Traumatic Mandible Dislocation

Preston Plevretes, now 23, claimed that he was
improperly treated by La Salle medical staff
after sustaining a concussion during a
practice in October 2005. Despite having
continuing symptoms, the lawsuit said,
Plevretes was cleared to play. . .

N.F.L. Head Injury Study Leaders Quit - Casson
has been the league’s primary voice discrediting
all evidence linking football players with
subsequent dementia or cognitive decline,
drawing criticism from fellow scientists,
players and ultimately Congress.

Roethlisberger developed some delayed symptoms
from a concussion he sustained last week

concussions are linked to
suppressed brain
functioning years later

Double Mouth Guards valued
by police trainning centers

This is the first time an advanced case
of CTE has been discovered in a college
football player that did not play
professionally. It is also the first
case diagnosed in a wide receiver

Former players Mike Webster, Terry Long,
and Justin Strzelczyk died at the
respective ages of 50, 45 and 36,
all with chronic traumatic encephalopathy

EXCELLENT 9 Pg. Article-
...How did this big athletic man

end up so crazy in the head?
-GQ Article Otc. 2009