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PSE Technology, manufacturer of the GelDefender skull caps, is providing selected NFL players with skull caps for future use.

The NFL injury report is checked each Monday, and a GelDefender MAX with elastic band—made from Impact Gel—is sent to every NFL player reported to have sustained a head injury over the previous weekend.

Notes are also sent to NFL team General Managers and trainers to advise them of the benefits of the product and the fact that PSE Technology has provided their player with a GelDefender skull cap.

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefenderTM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

Heavyweight boxer Amir Mansour—the first boxer to try the GelDefender skull cap—gets his first major TV fight experience on Saturday, December 14.

The undefeated Mansour, who is 19-0-0 with 14 knockouts, will fight Kelvin Price at the Resorts International Hotel & Casino in Atlanta City, NJ. That fight is the co-feature for NBC Sports Network.

Price is 14-1-0 with six knockouts.

Mansour is the WBF Intercontinental Heavyweight champion and the USBA Heavyweight champion.

In addition to his two title belts, Mansour is rated No. 5 by the NABA and in WBF United States rankings, No. 12 in North America by the NABO, and No. 15 in the world by the IBF.

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefenderTM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

Fifteen national youth sports organizations and sports medicine organizations have banded together into the National Sports Concussion Coalition in an attempt to create “the most comprehensive alliance of its kind.” Here’s the list:

The coalition plans to find the best ways to diagnose and treat youth sports concussions by working with concussion experts and sports medicine professionals. Members will also share findings with one another from their own individual research and conduct joint studies with pooled finances. The coalition also plans to educate players and parents about concussions through outreach programs.

While we’ve heard of many such endeavors being made in the recent head injury publicity, this is the first of its magnitude. The unprecedentedly large-scale endeavor effort could go a long way to helping kids to play it safer in whatever sport they choose.

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefender^TM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

Undefeated heavyweight Amir Mansour (19-0, 14 KO), the first boxer to receive a GelDefender head pad for sparring during trainmg, made significant upward movement in boxing rankings after his August 23 victory over Maurice Harris.  The fight was at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Delaware. f some key sanctioning bodies since August. Here are some of his biggest leaps:

Mansour will get back in the ring for an elimination fight November 22 at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino, and his new rankings should lead to a highly-rated opponent. The winner of that elimination fight should earn a fight early next year with at least one world title on the line.

Mansour is definitely one of the top American heavyweights to watch in the coming months.

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefender^TM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

Perhaps it was just a matter of time—with over $750 million committed by the NFL to settle a lawsuit from over 400 players.  Now, three former college football players are suing the NCAA, saying it failed to educate them about the risks of concussions and didn't do enough to prevent, diagnose, and treat brain injuries.

The players who filed the class-action suit in federal court in Chattanooga are Chris Walker and Ben Martin, who recently played for Tennessee, and Dan Ahern, who played for North Carolina State in the 70’s.

The complaint alleges that the NCAA failed to meet its obligation to former players and that because of its neglect the players are suffering the consequences. While details are still in short supply, the suit asks for a medical monitoring program for former football players, to be funded by the NCAA.

A question yet to be answered is why the NCAA was targeted in the suit, but not the players’ respective universities, which may have had more direct knowledge of the players’ health and injuries.

Beyond that, if these players successfully execute suits involving the NCAA, their universities, their athletic departments, their trainers, and/or their coaches, then what is next?  Former high school players, middle school players, even youth players in the city leagues?  And who will be the target —schools, trainers, coaches, even city governments and school boards?

The NFL settlement was certainly the first major step in addressing some of the issues faced by the various participants in this complex subject. Where the next foot will fall will likely become apparent in the near future.

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefender^TM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

GelDefender head pads have breached new frontier: the paintball field. Canadian paintball team Urban Conflict tried out our head pads on the field and performed their version of ballistics testing, and the pads passed with flying colors. The team even made two in-depth videos about the head pads’ usefulness and performance.

Paintballs fly at about 250 ft/sec, so getting hit in the head is no laughing matter. And since most wear only face masks for protection, their heads are left completely exposed to head shots. Though often these shots are celebrated by those who shoot them and worn as badges of honor by those who are shot, the risks associated can outweigh the benefits.

So Urban Conflict decided to do something about it. After researching products, they decided to get several head pads from us and put them through their paces. The results speak for themselves. Both in combat, where those wearing head pads had no injuries from head shots, and in the improvised tests, during which the pads were pitted against all manner of guns at all sorts of distances, the GelDefender head pads went above and beyond the call of duty in protecting the players.

In the first video, the team spends the first 5 minutes and 30 seconds or so discussing the need for head protection in paintball and the rest of the video talking about the merits of GelDefender head pads in particular. The second video chronicles their testing the pads on a dummy Styrofoam head. About 4 minutes in, one man even agrees to be shot in the head. His response: “I barely felt that.”

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefender^TM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

Undefeated heavyweight boxer Amir "Hardcore" Mansour, the first boxer to train using GelDefender head pads, won a unanimous decision August 23 over Maurice Harris, improving his record to 19-0 (14 KO). The fight, which also was a defense of Mansour’s WBF Intercontinental title, was the feature of a nine-bout card at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Dover, DE.

The 12-round victory earned Mansour the USBA (United States Boxing Association, a division of the WBA) heavyweight title and an elimination fight for the WBF title at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in November. The winner of that elimination fight becomes the mandatory opponent for WBF heavyweight champ Carlos Takam for a title fight in January or February of 2014.

This was the first time in his career that Mansour was pushed to fight a full 12 rounds, and only the second time that he needed to go the distance in a fight. The lengthy fight was made more difficult for Mansour due to a tough, veteran opponent and Mansour’s severe kidney inflammation and dehydration.

With his win, his spot in the computer rankings jumped to No. 5 in the U.S., No. 6 in North America, and No. 19 in the world.

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefender^TM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

Japan became the 2013 Little League Baseball World Series Champion for the second time in a row yesterday after a 6-4 victory over Chula Vista, Calif., in front of 28,119 people. Chula Vista is the 2013 United States champion.

All the teams performed admirably throughout the tournament, the last little bit of summer for most of them. Eastlake Little League from Sammamish, Washington, the only team to be provided with GelDefender head pads, was unfortunately eliminated Friday in a 13-14 extra-inning nail-biter against New England. Congratulations to all players from around globe for a job well done!

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefender^TM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

Correction: The game between Washington and Connecticut has been rescheduled for Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.

The 2013 Little League World Series is getting close to its climax with only two more days of elimination rounds before the championship game Sunday. Here’s the updated list of the teams still in it:

Tonight, the teams still in the series that have already lost will play elimination games, and the winners along with Chula Vista and Japan will play the semifinal round on Saturday.

Eastlake Little League from Washington pulled out another win Tuesday night against Tennessee and are set to play again tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern on ESPN against Connecticut. Be sure to watch the only Little League in the World Series to be given GelDefender head pads!

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefender^TM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.

The Little League World Series continues after a day filled with eliminations yesterday and yet another victory for the Washington Eastlake Little League team. Here are the teams still in the series:

New England
2-0
Northwest
2-1
Southeast
2-1
West
2-0
Asia-Pacific
2-1
Latin America
2-1
Japan
2-0
Mexico
2-0

Two more will be eliminated tonight as Chinese Taipei squares off with Panama and Eastlake takes on the team from Nashville. Remember to keep an eye on Eastlake, the only team in the series who have be given GelDefender head pads, as they play again at 8 p.m. on ESPN2.

*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefender^TM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.