Study from Feb 2018 journal Brain showing hits not concussion cause CTE
Concussion, microvascular injury, and early tauopathy in young athletes after impact head injury and an impact concussion mouse model
My embed kungfu is no good... perhaps yours is much better.
If you are interested hit this link...
https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx350
There is a 4 min video embedded in this study (which was published with a public link... i.e. you have full access.) which I can't scrape for this post (or at least 20 mins of looking couldn't get it done.)
The video is a pretty good summary. I will diarize later if I have time but there is nothing here that a layperson can't wrap their heads around.
This is the sort of publishing Journals should do for all public health studies IMO.
TL;DR - Concussions don't cause CTE. The raw contact does. Concussion protocols don't protect players from CTE risk.
Time to think about flag football Saturdays perhaps. I for one would like to see Ultimate made a varsity sport. Regardless this is good science and is well written.
This study should have some media impact if it hasn't already.
Go Blue!
February 2nd, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^
That's a mischaracterization of what I said.
Also, I'm pretty sure I got a concussion playing in the backyard without pads. I bet a lot of you did, too.
February 2nd, 2018 at 6:57 PM ^
Football is not under attack, children playing tackle football is. Let them play flag until high school. At that point most are playing tackle football for only 4 years (or less), only the top couple percent of those play up to 4 more years in college, and only the top <1 percent of thsoe go on to play anymore after that and they at least are grownups getting paid.
February 3rd, 2018 at 8:48 AM ^