They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head. If their families could go back, would they still let them play?
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They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head. If their families could go back, would they still let them play?
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After Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed, many parents made that statement. I once did, too.
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“No sport should accept repetitive head impacts before the age of 14,” Nowinski told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. “Let’s start there. Parents don’t hit their own child in the head, and we need to remove this cultural veil, in that it happening in sports is OK for the developing brain. It’s not.
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Amid intense focus at elite level exclusive new data reveals a sharply growing but hidden toll from head knocks every weekend in parks and on ovals around Australia.
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As the number of ex-footballers diagnosed with dementia grows, the debate surrounding the sport's worrying relationship with degenerative brain disease intensifies.
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Children in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland will no longer be allowed to head soccer balls during training sessions.
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A Texas program for high schools mandated soft-shell helmets after serious injuries occurred during incidental contact.
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Girls’ soccer players are suffering brain injuries at nearly the same rate as football players. For one, the sport brought her six concussions and severe lasting effects.
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Kids playing the sport can face the threat of concussions, cognitive troubles and behavioral problems.
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The brains of college football players showed signs of “fraying” after a season of play.
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The neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy can start early and without any signs of concussion, according a study released Thursday.
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Despite devastating injuries, struggling towns still see football as a way to make it through
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The Boston University study links cognitive and behavioral problems later in life — among all players, not just in the N.F.L. — to playing tackle at a young age.
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A new study finds playing tackle football before age 12 can have lasting consequences for the brain
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USA Football, responding to safety concerns and declining participation, is developing a version called modified tackle, with fewer players on a smaller field.
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Archbishop Murphy outscored its first three opponents 170-0 and won its last two by forfeit. A third forfeited Wednesday.
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Scans find lingering damage in white matter even when high school and college football players feel they’ve recovered from their injury.
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Rubgy leads to dislocated shoulders, spinal injuries and head injuries which
can have short-term, life-long, and life-ending consequences, warn health
experts
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The link between concussion and irreversible brain injury is particularly troubling, especially given the dominance of Australia’s contact sporting culture.
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Will Smith hopes his new film Concussion will jolt parents into realising their kids' health could be at serious risk when they sign them up to play American football. - New Zealand Herald
After hearing so much controversy surrounding long-term health ramification associated with concussion's, I'm hoping this film does the topic justice...
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Research of unprecedented depth has revealed most ex-footballers remain affected by battle wounds.