The Future of Football: NYTimes Links Big Tobacco with NFL Concussion Study

[Obscure Name]

I’m a little surprised that a number of wrestlers were impacted. Doesn’t seem like the sort of thing where you’d get repeated concussions.

I'm not. Same reason why linemen have the highest rates of CTE in football, it's from the repeated sub-concussive impacts and the accumulated damage, not the highlight reel hits that get all the attention. Same reason rugby and its "safer" tackling techniques still have CTE rates of like 70%. It's still humans colliding and jarring their brains around their skulls.

 

[luckiestman]

I’m a little surprised that a number of wrestlers were impacted. Doesn’t seem like the sort of thing where you’d get repeated concussions.

You get hit a lot. Maybe not known concussions. These reports always make me wonder if my brain is fucked up. I have caught a ton of head shots in my life(elbows, knees, other heads). It’s not like boxing, but you can get popped.

For the youth athlete, weight cutting may make this worse .

 

[joe dokes]

Washington Post with a disheartening look at the administration of the NFL settlement:
The NFL concussion settlement’s broken promises - Washington Post

 

[Oil Can Dan]

This is cool. It's probably 5 or so years away but one day we'll have sideline concussion tests in the NFL:

A bedside blood concussion test, with Pitt research, finds FDA approval

Dr. David Okonkwo, director of the Neurotrauma Clinical Trials Center, and his team’s efforts have resulted in the first lab-quality test capable of detecting concussions rapidly and accessibly, right at patients’ bedsides and, someday, on the sidelines of sporting events.