Brain-Pad

And thus added it to the already-contact-classified sports of: tackle football & hockey.

This "upgrade" was no surprise to those familiar with hospital emergency room statistics
that reveal soccer:

- HIGH CONCUSSION RATE - _____per athlete exposures

A rate that equals football statistics (Tysvaer, Storli, & Bachen, 1989) !

The unrealized DANGERS in soccer:

1) Repeated Heading of the Ball. This is a practiced skill, yet jars the brain inside the skull repeatedly !
Youth competitors are at serious risk of Cerebral Trauma/Long Term Concussive Injury

2) Player body-contact to head and face while racing/jumping/slide-tackling to gain control of the ball

3) Face impacts from kicked balls/ deflected ball kicks

4) Illegal high kicking, low heading.


A child's brain reaches 90 percent of its adult size by the age of three (Trevarthen, 1983), and
reaches its full adult size at the age of six (Kessen, Haith, & Salapatek, 1970).

A child's head is thus disproportionately heavy and large when contrasted
with a child's total body weight.

" Should future data establish beyond reasonable doubt that heading in youth soccer is safe,
still, protection from head contact with goal posts, contact with ground,
and contact with other players' heads, elbows, knees, etc ...
. . . is enough reason to require head protection gear and/or the wearing of
a mouth guard while playing this otherwise great game.".

The amount of force calculated the moment a soccer ball hits the head of a player is 208 joules.
Since the jaw is not attached to the skull, and knowing that every force produces equal
and opposite directional component of force,

the impact causes the lower jaw to slam against
the base of the skull.

These forces account for a large percentage of the damage
found in the jaw joints of soccer players.

What can be done to protect the Sport and its athletes ?

1) The BRAIN-PAD "CLENCHER!", Double Guard, LoPro FEMALE, or LoPro+ is the perfect fit,

and a proven, protective solution for soccer players of any age !
Continue to mouth guards order section
2) Brain-Pad IMPACT PROTECTIVE HEADBANDS absorb heading impact energy by 50%

while still absorbing sweat !
Continue to Headband & Wristband order section