Should Headgear Be Mandatory During Sports

Headgear should not be mandatory during sports. In soccer, like many other sports, there is potential for risk of injury. Though headgear may protect your head, it may cause discomfort and cause you to not be focused during gameplay. Adding on the headgear may not even protect your head from any impact. Headgear causes a change in the radius of the head, which increases both the ball’s movement arm and the head’s moment of inertia. While headgear is frequently mentioned as a safety measure, information reveals that it may not be as efficient in reducing head injuries as previously thought. In the article, "Should High School Soccer Players Wear Helmets?" on lines 9 and 10, it indicates, "Headgear may protect athletes from trauma lacerations and fractures, but there is no good …show more content…
Mandatory headgear regulations may give athletes a false sense of security, promoting riskier activity. Read the article "Should High School Soccer Players Wear Helmets?" it discusses how headgear is ineffective for players and may actually increase the risk of head injury. Lines 30-32 demonstrates "Lastly, wearing headgear often gives teens a false sense of security. When helmets were mandated in hockey, Robinson said, head injuries increased "because they felt invincible." This piece of evidence emphasizes how headgear gives a false sense of security and makes the sport players act more insecure and even increases head injuries and makes them act more reckless because they feel more protected and invincible. Headgear is not effective and it increases head injury and makes the player act reckless. Headgear may protect players from concussions and keep them head injury free. The article "Evidence Mounts for Headgear in Soccer" focuses on how headgear is effective and protects the head. Line 16 demonstrates "In fact, studies so far support the use of headgear to prevent

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