- Are you ready for some football brain damage? Parents and players, balance the uncertain research and ask yourselves this hard question:our view
- Scientists claim to diagnose football-related brain injury in living patients for first time For the first time, scientists have confirmed a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — a neurological disease linked to head injuries from sports like football — in a living person. Until now, we’ve only been able to diagnose CTE in dead patients.
- New research on football and brain trauma sounds an alarm
Can Science Solve Football's Concussion Crisis?
"There's not going to be one magic rule change, one magic helmet design, one magic dietary supplement that’s going to make concussions go away," says Dr. Michael Stuart, co-director of sports medicine for the Mayo Clinic. But, he says, "There is hope. I really do think there have been tremendous strides." N.F.L. teams will be subjected to fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars and possibly the loss of draft picks if they fail to take players out of games after sustaining a concussion(2016) USA Football, the country's governing body for Pop Warner football, recently agreed that changes needed to be made to better ensure the safety of the players, who range in age from 5 to 14.
What Happens To A Football Player's Brain During A Concussion?
Picture the brain as a bowl of grey spaghetti that is suddenly flung out of an airplane. Those noodles would stretch. Some would snap from the pressure while others would merely thin out in a way that would damage the sensitive neurons. Concussion prevention in the National Football League (NFL) is an important priority for player safety. The NFL now has modified game schedules, and one concern is that unconventional game schedules, such as a shortened rest period due to playing on a Thursday rather than during the weekend, may lead to an increased risk of injuries. Approximately 300,000 sport-related concussions occur annually in the United States, and the likelihood of serious sequelae may increase with repeated head injury.
For many Americans, football is quintessential to the high school experience. But researchers have begun to worry about long-term risks from the violent blows and concussions players receive on the field. Many questions remain unanswered, but the findings are so serious that some former players are calling for a ban on the sport. Berto Garcia, a computer engineering major at Texas Tech, would like to save the game of football from itself. “Guys — we know the protocol, so if you are cognitively there somewhat then you can cheat the system,” Baldwin said. “Honestly, I don’t know what’s a better way to do it. We’re waiting for that. We’re waiting for that information.” Head-injury findings causing some parents to place children in other sports
The script for the movie Concussion landed in the hands of actor Will Smith. Smith's first reaction was one that he didn't expect. "Dr. Williams, would you let your son play football?" Over the course of a 20-year career as a sports neurologist, that question is one of the most frequently asked by patients, friends who are parents of young athletes and the public in general For Dr. Bennet Omalu, the future of football is not a debate.
Concussions occur in soccer and other sports, too -- but yeah, let's go after all-American football
In college, women's soccer has a higher rate of concussions than men's football or soccer. Kids who start playing tackle football before the age of 12 are at much higher risk of developing behavioral and emotional troubles as adults, according to a new study. One thing is for certain – players of both sports are getting bigger and faster. The nation’s largest youth football program, Pop Warner, has settled its first and only concussion-related lawsuit that was brought by the mother of a former player who blamed the sport for her son’s suicide. As Knowledge Of Traumatic Brain Injury Is Acquired, Tough Decisions More Easily Made According to the Brain Injury Research Institute, 20 percent of this country's high school football players suffer brain injuries in any given season. That number should be unacceptable to all of us. For freshman Tyrell Cameron, it was a fractured neck after being hit during a punt return. Ben Hamm took a hit to the head. The same was true for Kenny Bui and Andre Smith In two of the last three seasons, almost half the major college football programs didn’t publicly report a concussion Cunningham, 48, resigned from one of the top jobs in sports broadcasting because of his growing discomfort with the damage being inflicted on the players he was watching each week.
Approximately 100 class-action lawsuits against university athletic programs, claiming insufficient concussion protocol going back decades, have been consolidated in the Northern Illinois District federal court in Chicago.
- University of Wisconsin football players downplay warnings while proof of brain injury — even from small hits — piles upIt was a freak hit — a blow to the back of University of Wisconsin fullback Austin Ramesh’s helmet by an opposing Illinois player. Ramesh described being “a little dazed” as he walked off the field.
- Should School Boards Discontinue Support for High School Football?
- Age of first exposure to American football and long-term neuropsychiatric and cognitive outcomesPrevious research suggests that age of first exposure (AFE) to football before age 12 may have long-term clinical implications; however, this relationship has only been examined in small samples of former professional football players.
- Disqualified after concussions, college football players recruited back onto the field