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Helmet sensors make headlines in advance of Indiana all-star game

Friday's health and safety news from the world of football:

  • As the Indiana high school all-star game players will be trying out helmet sensors this weekend, to doctors who say that sensors need more testing before widespread use.
  • the makers of the Brain Sentry sensors, the devices being used in the Indiana all-star game.
  • on the helmet sensors to be used in the game.
  • Marcus Lattimore, who has spent more than a year recovering from a severe knee injury while playing college football at South Carolina, was placed on the non-football injury list by the San Francisco 49ers. His comeback efforts have been .

* that the Ravens will hold their Military Appreciation Day on July 28, coinciding with the open practice at M&T Bank Stadium.

  • a local doctor who is trying to make a difference by conducting ImPACT testing for high school athletes.
  • on the concussion-sensors development being conducted at Western Michigan University.
  • on the youth football helmets in use in the area that rate low in the Virginia Tech STAR ratings.
  • at youth helmets in its city and found many that were marginal in the STAR ratings.
  • on a new neck physical treatment at the University of Kansas Hospital that is giving relief to concussion patients.

-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor

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