Sentences with phrase «thing about concussions»

It was really unfortunate and the tough thing about concussions.

Watch the crash and you might think he didn't hit that hard, but that's the thing about concussions — the impact doesn't have to look bad to be serious.

Not exact matches

JW: One thing that was interesting about [Joe] Rogan's interview with Cormier the other night: For all the talk about head injuries in sports, we actually saw what a concussion looks like in real - time.

The NFL was hiding the information that they had obtained about head injuries, about concussions, and about [traumatic brain injuries], head trauma, all these other things.

My position has consistently been and continues to be that it is up to parents to make decisions about their own kids» safety, and that the best thing I, MomsTEAM, the CDC, concussion experts, coaches, athletic trainers, and national governing bodies for football, from Pop Warner to USA Football to the NFL, can do is to (a) continue to do what we can and are doing doing to make the game safer (and that there remains a great deal of work to be done in this area is undeniable); and (b) provide accurate, objective information about the risks so that such decision is an informed one, not one driven by fear.

installed inside or on the outside of a player's helmet, embedded in a mouth guard, helmet chin strap, skull cap, head band, or skin patch worn behind the ear, for instance), all are essentially designed to do the same thing: alert coaches, athletic trainers, team doctors, other sideline personnel and / or parents about high - risk single and multiple head impacts in order to improve the rate at which concussions are identified.

Coalition members also will, among other things, share findings from their sport - specific concussion research, pool financial resources for joint studies and coordinate outreach programs to educate athletes and parents about concussions.

«One of the amazing things about this document is that it is a collaborative achievement by many people across the globe with different areas of expertise in sport - related concussion who have collaborated to come up with a unified answer to key questions in concussion,» says Dr. Kathryn Schneider, PhD, physiotherapist and assistant professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology.

The best thing about this movie is something that is impossible to prove, and that is the suggestion that former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliague resigned because he knew that damage from concussions was a very real thing, and that his feet were about to be put to the fire for what was done on his watch, so he stepped down and put human jellyfish Roger Goodell (jellyfish need very little oxygen for brain function, you see) in his place.

I highly recommend going through previous nominees for Best Limited Film for there you'll not only find more transgressive films about the white LGBT experience (Hedwig and the Angry Inch & Mysterious Skin, Velvet Goldmine & Beautiful Thing, Tomboy & Concussion) but especially films about the very type of characters I highlighted this past month.