However, as more evidence mounts on the long-term effect of concussions, there may well be more pressure from some in the medical community, AAP or not, to take children out of football, ice hockey and other head-shot-risky sports entirely.
He then shot at her -- hitting her in the leg and grazing her head -- and then shot the baby in the face, she said.
Those bullets were designed to be accurate to minimise the risk of an accidental head shot - the most common cause of death or injury from a rubber bullet.
Despite incidents such as the recent death of a 6-year-old New Jersey boy shot in the head by a 4-year-old playmate, as well as the accidental shooting of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy's wife by a 4-year-old boy, accidental firearms deaths are rare among children.
In early April, a 4-year-old boy in Tennessee shot and killed a 48-year-old woman, and just days later, 6-year-old Brandon Holt was killed in New Jersey after being shot in the head by his 4-year-old playmate.
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He had fled from officers into a dead-end street, where police found him apparently with a gun-shot wound in the head.
Typically, jail book-in information and a head shot picture are published on the Parker County Jail website within hours of an arrest in Parker County.
Mr Coghlan was injured in the fight but Mr Akinyemi - who was known to police - was shot in the head and stabbed to the upper body, despite wearing a stab vest.
Instead, they took him outside the city, handcuffed him, and shot him in the head - removing his ID so he became one of the many nameless bodies that turn up at the morgue.
The 15-year-old was shot in the head on 9 October by the Taliban after campaigning for girls education.
Some victims at the Labour Party youth camp on Utoeya island were shot in the head at point-blank range.
The 19-year-old was shot in the head, neck, legs and one hand, according to an FBI affidavit supporting the charges.
The latest victim was Vibert Inniss, deputy head of the customs anti-narcotics unit, shot last month as he stopped to buy a newspaper in Buxton, the centre of much of the violence.
The 14-year-old schoolgirl was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for her campaign for girls' education.
The market had just over-shot the measured move from another head and shoulders pattern, and was breaking hard to new lows again.
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Police said the 18-year-old had been shot in the head and was under an armed guard in Milton Keynes General Hospital "for his own protection".
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Five minutes from his house, en route to the bus that would take him to the Green Zone, gunmen shot him in the head and mid-section.
The 31-year-olds were both shot in the head while their killers made off with their mobile phones, a cheap digital camera and a handful of cash.
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords has received a Purple Heart after being shot in the head by a would-be-assassin while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The attorney for one of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's co-defendants was found shot in the head hours after he was abducted by gunmen, police said Friday.
Whittaker, deployed in a more advanced role than normal, continued to pose Rangers' most potent threat at the start of the second half and almost scored when he ran on to Lafferty's head-flick and powered in a left-foot shot that Patricio did well to divert wide.
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The fourth victim, a 47-year-old woman, was shot in the head Thursday in Essonne, a few miles south of the capital, officials said.
Justin Ferrari, a software engineer and water-polo coach, was shot in the head on May 24th while driving with his two children and his parents.
All seven victims were shot in the head, most at point-blank range, and authorities said they were carefully targeted because of their religious and ethnic ties.
Eighth-grader Asher Brown shot himself in the head in September after enduring what his mother and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other middle school students.
Mr. Jaan's 6-year-old niece Zardana, shot in the head, was still lying unconscious in a Kandahar hospital earlier this week, and wasn't expected to survive, he said.
Daniel Parmertor, a sixteen-year-old snowboarder, was shot in the head.
They believed she would be safe among her own community, but on Tuesday, she was stopped as she returned home from school in Mingora, in north-western Swat, and shot in the head.
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Also Saturday, police in this coastal port city released 911 recordings from neighbors who sobbed and pleaded for help right after 13-month-old Antonio Santiago was shot in the head a few blocks from his mother's apartment.
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