| In 1998, more than 91,000 children and
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| | not just in the batting box. Another
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| adolescents ages 5 to 14 were treated in
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| | study of sports equipment utilized crash
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| hospital emergency rooms for baseball
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| | dummies to analyze the baseball injuries
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| injuries, and nearly 26,000 children and
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| | and deaths from being hit in the chest. A
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| adolescents ages 5 to 14 were treated for
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| | previous study reported in the Clinic
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| softball-related injuries. Baseball also
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| | Journal of Sports Medicine (1992)
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| has the highest fatality rate among
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| | studying protective sports equipment had
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| sports for children and adolescents ages
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| | found that chest protectors and softer
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| 5 to 14, with three to four persons dying
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| | baseballs provide no protection against
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| from baseball injuries each year. This
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| | death from chest impact. The purpose of
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| is sobering to we parents who grew up
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| | the new study evaluated current
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| playing baseball on a nearby vacant lot.
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| | protective sports equipment that could
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| Sports equipment manufacturers are
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| | favorably modify the incidence of
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| trying to address our concerns about the
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| | baseball chest impact fatalities. A child
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| safety of our kids, and the Crash Dummy
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| | crash dummy and a fifth percentile female
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| Kids are helping us evaluate whether the
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| | Hybrid III crash dummy were used to test
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| new "safer" products actually live up to
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| | chest protectors. The internal deflection
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| their manufacturer's claims. A soft
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| | and viscous response values obtained from
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| baseball is a new addition to sports
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| | the Hybrid III dummy showed minimal
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| equipment promoted by manufacturers as
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| | reduction in response when chest
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| substantially reducing the risks of head
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| | protectors were used compared to the
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| injury for children who play baseball.
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| | unprotected dummy. Even worse, when a
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| Crash Dummy Kids helped researchers at
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| | generic dosed cell foam chest protector
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| the Institute for Preventative Sports
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| | was hit by a standard hard baseball, the
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| Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, when they
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| | impact force increased between 6 and 43%,
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| tested the risk of head injury from a
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| | and the momentum delivered increased
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| hard baseball and nine types of softer
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| | between 10 and I5%. When a softer core
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| baseballs thrown at 60 miles per hour, a
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| | baseball was thrown against generic
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| typical speed in Little League. The way
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| | closed cell foam protection, the force
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| the testing works is that the Crash Dummy
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| | measured increased between IS and S8%,
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| Kids arrive at the test site, the
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| | and the momentum delivered increased
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| researchers throw baseballs at them
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| | between 14 and 18%. The results for
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| (well, actually, a machine throws the
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| | chest protectors were really bad! Closed
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| baseball) and load cells in the dummy's
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| | cell foam chest protectors protectors,
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| body report on the strength of the
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| | including ABS plastic hard shell-covered
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| impact. A study reported in the October
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| | generic closed cell foam, had only a
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| issue of Clinical Journal of Sports
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| | marginal effect in reducing levels
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| Medicine, showed that the soft baseballs
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| | impact. The researchers concluded that
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| provided only modest protection. One of
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| | the chest protector itself and the
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| the test series showed that a player
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| | various types of chest protector
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| without a batting helmet, who is hit in
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| | materials studied have minimal protective
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| the head with a standard hard baseball
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| | effects on baseball injuries and may
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| has a 20 percent risk of serious head
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| | actually exacerbate the impact force to
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| injury, and that this risk only falls to
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| | the chest. To date, no effective
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| 12-l6 percent when hit with a soft
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| | preventive sports equipment has been
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| baseball which when thrown at 60 miles
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| | developed to eliminate or reduce chest
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| per hour still has a force of impact of
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| | injuries from baseball impact in the
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| over 1,000 pounds. Obviously soft
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| | pediatric population. Not only are the
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| baseballs aren't a substitute for a
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| | new products not safer, but our kids
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| batting helmet, and maybe we need to be
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| | aren't as safe as we thought!
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| thinking about using helmets all around,
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