The movie presents a strong case for dramatic changes in the way the general public looks
at contact sports, especially football, and to the way the institutions in charge of those sports conduct their play.
Apart from the skills needed for basic work — mathematics, objectivity, ineptitude
at contact sports — scientists have long had to write and edit scientific journal articles and present research at conferences.
Not exact matches
I am actually starrting to ask myself if the medical staff
at Arsenal know that this is a
contact sport.
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Many there believe that muscles compromise a woman's femininity and
contact sports put her fertility
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i wonder if the physical aspect has to be more looked
at, i just read a comment on ozil being easiyl tackled in the Chelsea game, maybe wenger should put some focus in training in order for that physical aspect to grow in our players, i am sure we do excercise a lot on the planning and Smart part of the game but lets not forget (better yet, wenger, do nt forget) that football is a
sport, a
sport of
contact, and
sport means being physically fit for it.
Some say it's a
contact sport, but it's not: It's a collision
sport, and the more violent the collision, from the perspective of
at least one team, the better.
They don't have the personal brands of some of the columnists, and the work of attending press conferences, watching practices, cultivating
contacts and hundred other things that good
sports journalists do is probably underappreciated by the fans
at large.
The people who invented this game will be turning in their grave
at the way we are letting these foreign gay boys change our game into a non
contact sport.
Guidelines from Headway and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence state people should not play any
contact sport for
at least three weeks after suffering a concussion.
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If your child plays a
contact or collision
sport, whether
at the youth, middle school or high school level, odds are that
at some point in their athletic career they will suffer a concussion.
As someone who has been educating
sports parents about head trauma in
sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing
contact or collision
sports, or suffering a
sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is
at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.
If your child plays a
contact or collision
sport, whether
at the youth, middle school or high school level, chances are they will suffer a concussion
at some point in their athletic career.
Soccer has a higher injury rate than many
contact / collision
sports such as field hockey, rugby, basketball, and football, with players younger than age 15
at higher relative injury risk compared with older players, concludes a clinical report in the journal Pediatrics.
Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in
contact and collision
sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or,
at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.
One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the
sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs
at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time
at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted
contact and collision
sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.
Harvard neuropsychologist Grant Iverson suggests that, given the thousands of media stories relating to
contact sports and CTE, it was perhaps time to examine whether repeated exposure to such news stories «elicits or reinforces suicidal ideation in some
at - risk athletes.»
I wanted to ask them for their reaction to a recent survey of college athletes in
contact and collision
sports at the University of Pennsylvania which found that, despite being educated about the dangers of continuing to play with concussion symptoms, most are still very reluctant to report symptoms because they want to stay in the game, and to comment on reports that the N.F.L. players» union was against putting sensors in helmets that would alert the sideline to hits of a sufficient magnitude to cause concussion, which may be the technological solution (or, in football parlance «end - around») to the chronic under - reporting problem.
In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision
sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking
at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full -
contact practices instituted
at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular
sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.
it is true that some injuries in
contact and collison
sports are inevitable, but
at the rate youth and high school ice hockey was going, it wouldn't have been too long before it was considered one of the «extreme
sports» that are so popular on television these days; you know, the ones where, after the big crash or fall, the show cuts to a commercial and, when it comes back, the seriously injured participant has already been stretchered off to a waiting ambulance.
«The results of this study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to
contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
In most cases, athletes immediately removed from
contact or collision
sports after suffering a concussion will recover without incident fairly quickly (seven to ten days), but if they are allowed to keep playing, their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are
at increased risk of long - term problems, and even catastrophic injury or death.
On the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing
contact or collision
sports for a long period of time likely has,
at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practices.
Additionally, a medical professional trained in the diagnosis of concussions will be present
at all
contact -
sport games.
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Experts, however, do agree on one thing: that an athlete should never return to
contact or collision
sports while still suffering post-concussion symptoms
at rest and with exertion.
All of us involved in youth
sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recom
sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make
contact and collision
sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recom
sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full -
contact practices, and the
Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recom
Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered
at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks
at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football
at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).
Roughly 1,600 athletes spread across seven
contact sports at those four schools will be put through a series of advanced baseline and post-injury assessments: blood draws, genetic testing and neuroimaging — in addition to the clinical tests that will fuel Broglio's work.
They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory
at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play
contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.
Due to the nature of competitive
sports at the high school level, there is an elevated risk of infectious diseases being spread by skin - to - skin
contact and contaminated equipment shared by athletes.
Dr. Robert Cantu, one of the world's leading experts on head trauma in
sport and a clinical professor of neurosurgery
at Boston University School of Medicine, has pointed to studies showing
at least 30 percent of concussions in soccer come from the act of heading the ball, sometimes through direct
contact with the ball but more significantly when the head smashes into another player or the ground.
Researchers
at St. Michael's Hospital performed preseason brain scans of 65 varsity athletes — 23 from collision
sports (with routine, purposeful body - to - body
contact), 22 from
contact sports (where
contact is allowed, but is not an integral part of the game) and 20 from non-
contact sports.
«We're different than a lot of stick and ball
sports because we're not a
contact sport, but we do have accidents and crashes
at the race track,» John Bobo, NASCAR's senior director of racing operations, told FoxNews.com.
Roush tested all
contact and collision
sport athletes
at two local schools.
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contact sports at such a young age?
The findings showed that 19.5 percent reported
at least one diagnosed concussion in their lifetime, which was consistent with regional studies and with emergency department reports stating
contact sports are a leading cause of concussion among teens.
«This research increases our basic understanding of the effects of head trauma, particularly for those severe single injuries that can and do happen in military service and
contact sports,» said Naomi Rosenberg, Ph.D., dean of the Sacker School and vice dean for research
at Tufts University School of Medicine.
«In the meantime, we need to focus on prevention of concussions and other head impacts
at all levels of
contact sports.»
It is, after all, a full -
contact sport, and senior author Jessica Green, who is also a microbiologist
at the University of Oregon, was once a roller derby player herself.
«We're not saying that ADHD led to injury, but given its known characteristics, it may be putting these athletes
at higher risk, especially in
contact sports.»
Still, eliminating head injuries from football or other
contact sports could prove exceedingly difficult, says Gary Solomon, a neuropsychologist
at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. «I don't think we're ever going to have a concussion - proof helmet.»
I've recently started gyming, I'm 23, I'm about 6ft 1in, I weigh about 90kgs but I look fairly slim, in other words, I'm heavier than my appearance, I was very active while still
at school, playing a lot of
contact sports as well as cricket and athletics.
«Given all the known benefits and favorable safety profile of creatine supplementation reported in the scientific and medical literature, it is the view of ISSN that government legislatures and
sport organizations who restrict and / or discourage use of creatine may be placing athletes
at greater risk — particularly in
contact sports that have risk of head trauma and / or neurological injury.»
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A large share of cases involved high school students and athletes who played
contact sports, but infections were reported
at the elementary - and middle - school - levels as well.
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