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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Treatment for concussions in kids has changed in the past 10 years. A new study confirms the recent move away from prolonged days out of school.
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While much of the inquiry into concussions and repeated head trauma in sport will focus on professional players and leagues, local teams and young players should also look out for the findings.
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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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A Melbourne-led research team has developed Australia’s first national protocols for treating children with head injuries.
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"Tackling is dangerous. There's no safe way to do it. There are fair ways to do it, but there's no safe way to bring another man - or woman - to the ground and stop their momentum at the same time."
Dr Nowinski said there was no reason for children to play adult forms of any contact sport. "You just don't start hitting children in the head," he said. "When they're young, you don't play the adult, dangerous version of the game. What's the point? We're crazy to have children who are not getting paid and don't even understand what CTE means playing by the same rules as adults.
As a parent, you have to think twice about letting your child play heavy contact sports like AFL, Rugby (either code) or football. At least in basketball there is no tackling.
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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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Playing sport has a range of benefits for teenagers, but a group of researchers is questioning whether the benefits could be outweighed by the risk of brain injuries.
Getting close to considering not playing contact sport due to the risk of lifelong increasing effects of concussion.
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Kids playing the sport can face the threat of concussions, cognitive troubles and behavioral problems.
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Medical pioneer Bennet Omalu believes the risks associated with concussions will soon spell the demise of contact sports.
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Despite devastating injuries, struggling towns still see football as a way to make it through
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Recent research makes clear the drastic effects of head injuries on young athletes, and advocates are asking states and schools to do more.
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Nicole Fitzsimons would never have hopped on a motorbike without a helmet back home in Australia. - New Zealand Herald
Tell your kids to wear motorcycle helmets when on holiday.
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The Herald has uncovered a spate of dementia cases among rugby legends, raising the ugly possibility that head injuries suffered during their playing days have contributed to the disease.
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Research of unprecedented depth has revealed most ex-footballers remain affected by battle wounds.
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Sports Concussion Australasia brings you simple and effective sports concussions tests and treatment apps.
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PARENTS have been urged to embrace a new smartphone app which aims to identify the warning signs of concussion in junior footballers and de-mystify their path to recovery.
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Tom Brady is the gifted quarterback of the New England Patriots, widely regarded (even by Jets’ fans) as one of the best ever at his position. But when he was a kid in the late 1980s and early '90s, his father Tom Sr.
PM - While it is about American football, the science behind the reasons why kids should not play tackle football sound correct.
Should tackle football have an age requirement?
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Amateur and professional footballers who are concussed face possible long-term neurological damage, cognitive impairment and mental health problems, research reveals.
Two papers in the Medical Journal of Australia today reignite the debate about concussion, particularly among young, amateur players.
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Last week, as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell handed down player suspensions in “Bountygate,” another well-respected football star, Junior Seau, also killed himself. The two suicides are similar, with fatal wounds intended to preserve their football-battered brains for posthumous study. Evidence is accumulating that links concussions suffered playing the game they loved — and the sport I most enjoy watching with my kids — with declining mental health after the physical punishment has ceased.
More than any other revelation about the sport, the death of Duerson is forcing me to reflect on why I continue to watch NFL football. Giving it up would mean not just abandoning my 27-year-old fantasy football team and about three hours of potential euphoria each week, but also losing my connection to afternoons spent with my father trying to point the antenna to Milwaukee to watch blacked-out Bears games on TV. Now a father of three, I am challenged to reconcile this dark side of the game with the Sunday afternoon rituals in the fall where I encourage my kids to help me cheer for big hits.