On October 18, 2015, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) endorsed efforts to limit contact practices in youth football, but declined to make a clear recommendation in favor of delaying the age

ORIGINALLY POSTED IN HUFFINGTON POST 10/9/15 

If you follow the subject of sports-related concussions, you've probably seen a flurry of news on the subject of impact sensors in the last couple of weeks.

Last week was chock full of news on the youth sports safety front.

Today, I did something I had never done before.

On Friday, June 20th, I attended the summer meeting of the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) at the Boston Harbor Hotel.

To mark April is National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is reprising some of the blogs that youth sports experts contributed to our month-long special blog project in 2012 in which I asked each to write a short blog answering two questions: first, how or why they got into their field, and, second, how they had made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year. We featured a new blog on our home page, posted the blogs on Facebook and Tweeted them out every day that April. That was then and this is, well, now. A lot has happened in the world of youth sports safety in the past two years, some good, some not so good.

Last night's episode of "Friday Night Tykes" didn't hit a new low, thankfully. In fact, while coaches continued to scream profanity at their players and engage in what many, including Brooke de Lench, view as out-and-out child abuse, it actually had some positive moments.

When MomsTEAM launched its Youth Sports Concussion Safety channel back in 2001, I suspected that people at the time must have thought the time and energy a team of experts, Senior Editor Lindsay Ba