Avoid tackling head-first in football, or sliding head-first onto bases in baseball.
The defensive tackle fractured his C3/C4 vertebrae and damanged his spinal cord while attempting to make a head-first tackle against Army, resulting in paralysis below the shoulders.
TALIAFERRO WALKS OUT OF HOSPITAL: Three-and-a-half months after severely injuring his spine on a head-first tackle against Ohio State, the Penn State freshman Adam Taliaferro walked out of a hospital on crutches.
Shazier was carted off the field Monday, apparently unable to move his legs, after making a head-first tackle in a game against the host Cincinnati Bengals.
Now he's delivering his audience to the NFL in a spot that portrays football as "a rite of passage" that helped his school-age son "grow up" with a head-first tackle, as he says in the ad.
The N.F.L. could also try educating coaches, who now believe that a headless hit is an ineffectual one, about the perils of head-first tackling, in hopes that over time safer techniques would become the norm.
Injury from this mechanism often occurs with shallow diving, head-first tackling (rugby injury) or vehicular accidents with neck in neutral position (30 degrees of flexion).
Davies, though, argues that rugby union should take note of how rugby league polices tackles, where a clear distinction is made between upending an opponent in a tackle and deliberately 'spearing' or driving an opponent head-first into the turf.
On Sept. 25, Pelc's North Carolina Tar Heels played against Eric LeGrand, a Rutgers tackle who weeks later became a quadriplegic on a head-first hit.
Rules against dangerous types of contact, such as "spear tackling" in American football, when one player tackles another head first, may also reduce head injury rates.
There are though three main issues which we must first tackle head-on, if after the dust settles we are to be left with a better democracy, electronic or not.
