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Related: About this forum'Brain changes' seen in young American footballers
Source: BBC
1 December 2014 Last updated at 06:00 GMT
'Brain changes' seen in young American footballers
Some teenagers appear to show changes in their brains after one season of playing American football, a small study suggests.
Even though players were not concussed during the season, researchers found abnormalities similar to the effects of mild traumatic brain injury.
Twenty-four players aged between 16 and 18 were studied and devices on their helmets measured head impacts.
The study was presented to the Radiological Society of North America.
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'Brain changes' seen in young American footballers
Some teenagers appear to show changes in their brains after one season of playing American football, a small study suggests.
Even though players were not concussed during the season, researchers found abnormalities similar to the effects of mild traumatic brain injury.
Twenty-four players aged between 16 and 18 were studied and devices on their helmets measured head impacts.
The study was presented to the Radiological Society of North America.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30248886
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'Brain changes' seen in young American footballers (Original Post)
Eugene
Dec 2014
OP
"Their next aim is to find out when young, developing brains are at their most vulnerable."
DetlefK
Dec 2014
#1
Answer: when schools and colleges prioritize head banging sports over education the damage
GreatGazoo
Dec 2014
#2
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. "Their next aim is to find out when young, developing brains are at their most vulnerable."
When somebody slams into them. Next question.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)2. Answer: when schools and colleges prioritize head banging sports over education the damage
isn't just for those who play.
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)3. It would be interesting to see the figures for Rugby
It's been a long-held suspicion of mine that all the padding and helmets in American football have fundamentally altered the sport and made it counter-intuitively more dangerous. Rugby players tend to be fit and more or less ordinary-sized and I suspect they don't suffer from these injuries to anywhere near the same extent.
Most 300 lbs behemoths wouldn't last a minute in Rugby.
Silent3
(15,018 posts)4. I wonder if "head banging" along with music is enough for this effect.
Also, I'm not sure if this should be a sarcastic question or not.