The National Center for Sports Safety (NCSS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of injury prevention and safety in youth sports . It was founded in 2001 by Lawrence J. Lemak, M.D. It focuses on decreasing the number and/or severity of injuries by educating trainers, coaches and the general public on sports safety, and by collecting, analyzing and researching injury data.
4-616: NCSS may refer to: National Center for Sports Safety National Computer Science School National Cooperative Soil Survey National Council for the Social Studies National Council of Social Service (Singapore) National Council of Social Services (United Kingdom) National CSS , a computer time-sharing vendor of the 60s-80s NCSS (statistical software) Niue Community Service Star Northwoods Community Secondary School Topics referred to by
8-533: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Center for Sports Safety In 2004, the NCSS in conjunction with the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA), launched a comprehensive sports safety course called PREPARE. The course, which is available online, is targeted at volunteer coaches and parents. One of the goals of
12-498: The course is to reduce the risk of brain-damage that occurs when a player that has suffered a concussion is sent back to the game too early, putting the athlete at risk for a second, more serious concussion. [1] The NCSS serves as a source of sports safety information to many organizations including the United States Navy [2] and USA Baseball [3] This article about a sports-related organization based in
16-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title NCSS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NCSS&oldid=1244096336 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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