Football Brain Injuries
Comments focus on concussions and brain damage risks in American football (NFL), often comparing to rugby, soccer, MMA, and boxing, debating equipment effects like helmets, underreporting, and whether to ban or discourage the sport.
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what about sports like mma, nfl that cause brain damage.
American football and boxing cause very real brain damage, but the extent to which other sports do is not well understood, and could be underestimated. Crossing faces and headbuts do happen in wrestling. Soccer also allows strikes to the ball with the head, which are thought to be unsafe.
Soccer causes head trauma just as american football does. Be careful :)
As I come from the UK and am not familiar with NFL, what moves specific to this sport cause this? This issue is not prevalent at all in Rugby, which is arguably more dangerous (no pads or helmets)
I often hear people say you have to 'coach how to hit properly' as if hitting with your head is just a bad habit, but when you watch the top pros they spear people with their heads, even high speed hits. This is built into the game, and the equipment enables it.I have not seen any meaningful change from the NFL (or CFL, haha) to specifically combat this risk. I think they know the game is exciting because of these brutal impacts, and they're afraid to water it down and risk pro
To the downvoter: A downvote won't change reality.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects...
Nice example of American football, since players have brain injuries, should we ban it too?
In all the sports you named - brain injury is not a regular part of the sport - it happens when something goes wrong. In football players suffer mild traumatic brain injury in every game, as a regular part of game play.
Are not concussions in football vastly under reported?
yeah, if they're not risking serious brain damage, they're not a real athlete