How do football helmets help prevent concussions?

Researchers have known for years that helmets actually don't do a great job of preventing concussions. In fact, most researchers agree they could actually have the opposite effect: wearing a helmet, studies suggest, can often make athletes more likely to use their heads as a weapon. read more

New Study Says No! - a blog by Sports Safety International. read more

Not only did players wearing the VSR4 helmets have a per-impact concussion rate more than twice as high as the rate for those wearing the Revolution helmet (8.37 concussions per 100,000 head impacts versus 3.86 concussions per 100,000 head impacts), but they also experienced higher acceleration impacts more frequently, regardless of the position they played. read more