A good game is a safe game and the Edina Football Association is working to prevent injury whenever possible. Keys to injury prevention are:
If you are interested, below is a link to a presentation by Dr. Uzma Samadani, Neurosurgeon HCMC and MN VA Medical Center and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Minnesota, Rockswold Kaplan Endowed Chair for Traumatic Brain Injury Research at HCMC. She authored The Football Decision: An Exploration Into Every Parent’s Decision Whether Or Not To Let A Child Play Contact Sports
Below is her presentation regarding The Football Decision:
There is nothing the EFA takes more seriously than the safety of our athletes. We believe that youth football can be run in safe manner than minimizes the risk of both minor and serious injuries. Despite the barrage of negative press around professional football programs, more and more research is showing that well run youth football programs actually have fewer injuries than many other youth actitivies. While no youth sport can be guaranteed to be injury-free. We, at the Edina Football Association, have put the following measures in place to do everything we can to keep your child safe:
Check out the attached guidelines.