Experiments have been widely conducted in the medical field. Tom Foley's blog talked about the severe injuries happening in football and what the NFL is doing to stop it. Football is known to be a violent contact sport, you have to be in good health with a fit or big body frame to play football and take the tackling. The NFl recently instated fines and even suspensions to players who hit above the waist. In order to see the affects of these hits, CSTE at the Boston University School of Medicine are researching the brains and spinal chords of NFL players after they have died. According to Foley the experimental research has not been done yet, but when it does happen it will be very beneficial to prevent such injuries. It will be interesting to hear more about this study in the future.
Andrew's blog was very interesting because it dealt with the equipment used during the sport. The article talked about the bat itself being the cause of injuries. The link to the article showed that they did numerous studies including studying the vibrations of the bat and the reaction time players have when a ball is hit. This study included actual scientific experimental research using physics. I wish Andrew would of went into more detail about the experiment itself. There were a lot of tabs and links under his article that would of expanded more on the experiment itself like any variables, groups, etc. Still, his topic was very interesting.
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