The 'Concussion' Scientist Has A Radical Proposition For Football

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10. Not exactly

Football, unlike almost any other sport than boxing, involves the regular and repeated impacting of the head with the ground and other people. Actually, the one other sport that is starting to get some notice is soccer because of the popularity of the "header" and the tendency to practice this technique. Hockey doesn't even get to anywhere near the kind of repeated impacts we are seeing in football. Furthermore, as is currently being implimented in all sports in highschool, once one has a concussion, further impacts must be eliminated for a period of weeks. Even "getting your bell rung" means no impacts for at least a couple of weeks.

So it's not about wrapping them in bubble wrap, it is about recognizing that a sport with the primary feature of repeated head impacts (even as part of practice) is not sustainable, at least at the teenage level. And furthermore even in sports where head impacts are not regular features, once one is experienced, a healing time of weeks must be recognized and enforced.