Posted on 10/30/2013 8:57:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
With high school football playoffs starting around the country, a leading medical body on Wednesday released a 306-page, NFL-funded report that found the sport not only has by far the highest rates of concussions at the interscholastic level, but also that the average high school player is nearly twice as likely to suffer a brain injury as a college player.
A panel of medical experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences analyzed a series of academic studies, with the most recent showing that college football players suffer concussions at a rate of 6.3 concussions per 10,000 "athletic exposures" -- each exposure representing a practice or game. For high school football players, the comparable figure is 11.2.
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Trust me it won’t end at measuring just concussions.
They will come up with some classification just under a full concussion, and start categorizing hits on a scale.
Must ban football in school, it’s for the children.
What about boxing and hockey?
I thought this was another prepper thread.
Lol. In boxing fighters are SUPPOSED to punch the daylights our of their opponents, especially in the head.
As for hockey, too brutal for words.
Ban everything athletic! Get FAT! 3-4 inches of solid fat will cushion the skull and protect the brain! /sarcasm
>> I thought this was another prepper thread.
Well, they tend to be surrounded by a lot #10 cans.
Hockey more brutal than football?
And bars of gold! :-)
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