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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 06:50 AM Dec 2014

'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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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30248886
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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
1. "Their next aim is to find out when young, developing brains are at their most vulnerable."
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 08:38 AM
Dec 2014

When somebody slams into them. Next question.

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
3. It would be interesting to see the figures for Rugby
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 12:38 PM
Dec 2014

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.
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 01:32 PM
Dec 2014

Also, I'm not sure if this should be a sarcastic question or not.

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