Two news items on the subject of brain
trauma in high school football, however, hit my desk over the past week which deserve comment.
Two of the Purdue studies [36,37] suggested that it might be possible to reduce risk of brain
trauma by gradually increasing the amount of contact
in the
football pre-season to allow time for players» brains to adjust, and one, by finding that players who sustained more than 50 hits per game, were much more likely than those who sustained fewer hits to be «flagged» by ImPACT and / or fMRI results as having neurocognitive deficits or altered brain activity, suggested that players be limited to a certain number of plays per game (a hard rule to implement, given the prevalence of two - way players
in the
high school game).