Football, Concussions, Dementia
‘Brain Chaser’ Tackles Effects of NFL Hits — “No brain of a 40- or 50-year-old should look like this,” Omalu said. The only people who would have such markings, he added, were boxers, very old people with Alzheimer’s disease or someone who had suffered a severe head wound.” — Bennet Omalu, neuropathologist. Just more on the effects of repeated concussions in football. And more. Wonderful sport, eh?
I suggest you take up a nice, safe sport like rugby.
Mark
April 25, 2007 at 8:25 am
Worse? Better? Same?
Jim Grisanzio
April 26, 2007 at 7:26 am
rugby is wrose tahn football
chase micheal
April 18, 2008 at 10:34 am
[...] Extremism in Youth Sports Very good article from Richard Senelick, a neurologist specializing in brain injuries, on the obvious dangers of contact sports: Head Games and Youth Sports: Have We Gone Too Far? Hint: you should question — strongly — all those cheering parents, screaming coaches, and detached school administrators involved in contact sports. Your child’s health depends on it, and it is more than likely that those in charge have no idea what they are doing. I played a bunch of contact sports back in school at Sachem in New York, including lacrosse and football. Not only were those sports a waste of valuable time, teaching me very little other than overt violence, but 100% of the coaches were completely clueless about injuries — especially at the younger grades. The coaches were extremists in every sense of the word. It’s scary to think that these people have such power over the health of our kids. For more fun that results later on see dings and dementia. [...]
Extremism in Youth Sports « Jim Grisanzio
September 7, 2010 at 12:15 am