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“Youth sports-related injuries
represent a major public health challenge, and overuse injuries, which result from repetitive microtrauma and insufficient rest, are a particular and growing concern. Overuse injuries... can lead to lifelong disabilities, and are almost entirely preventable.” |
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Catastrophic
College
Experiences 101
College
Experiences 101
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UCF Policy
"Academic and professional excellence can exist only when each member of our community is assured an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect. All members of the university community are responsible for the maintenance of an environment in which people are free to learn and work without fear of discrimination, discriminatory harassment, or interpersonal violence." |
High School:
A Course
In Collisions
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Brain Injuries
& The Heart
The Conversation 8/19/18
& The Heart
The Conversation 8/19/18
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Dire Prediction or Statistical Likelihood? |
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The Cost
In Suffering & Dollars Is Unacceptable PLOS Of some 819,000 people who wound up in an American ER with tackle football injuries between 2010 and 2013, more than 655,000 were kids. The total bill? $1.35 billion. |
Misplaced Priorities
Noah Frank WTOP 8/14/18 "When a football coach claims to know better, you ought to wonder what else to question him about. Especially at public schools -- where coaches' salaries are paid by taxpayers, and where in 31 states, a college football coach is the highest-paid state employee -- there must be more accountability." |
— Melanie George (@Melanie__George) August 10, 2018 |
"Some people with
frontal lobe injuries seem completely normal... but they actually have great difficulty with everyday tasks.... This is called the frontal lobe paradox because, even though these people seem unimpaired... they have significant difficulties in everyday life." |
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ADHD
Science Daily 8/14/18 "This article suggests that there are at least, two forms of ADHD. One that is an expression of a risk inherited... and the other which develops after traumatic brain injury." |
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Boulder Activist
Calls For Safer School Sports Bob Carmichael Boulder Daily Camera 8/4/18 “If you visualize the players' brains stretching and contorting inside their skulls with each hit they absorb, football becomes a game that is intolerable to support. We can find other sports to showcase great athletic ability...." |
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"The Pathology Is Self-Propagating" Brain August 1, 2018 "Brain homogenates... when inoculated into the hippocampus and overlying cerebral cortex... induced widespread tau pathology, synaptic loss, and persistent memory deficits." 
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The Odds
*For HS Senior Players
*For HS Senior Players
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Only nine in 10,000, or .09%, are eventually drafted by the NFL, where the average career lasts only 3 years. |
Less than 6% will compete in NCAA men’s football. What happens when your brief time on the gridiron is done? |
Tragically,
millions of kids
who put their bodies and brains
on the line
in the name
of “school spirit”
often find themselves
alone,
dealing with
residual,
invisible,
brain damage.
millions of kids
who put their bodies and brains
on the line
in the name
of “school spirit”
often find themselves
alone,
dealing with
residual,
invisible,
brain damage.
Informed Consent:
Life & Death Questions
Carol Bluestein & The Good Men Project
“Life-altering brain damage
is the dirty secret
hidden by
school pride,
winning teams,
and scholarships.”
Life & Death Questions
Carol Bluestein & The Good Men Project
“Life-altering brain damage
is the dirty secret
hidden by
school pride,
winning teams,
and scholarships.”
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WARNING
NO HELMET CAN PREVENT SERIOUS HEAD OR NECK INJURIES
A PLAYER MIGHT RECEIVE WHILE PARTICIPATING IN FOOTBALL.
Do not use this helmet to butt, ram or spear an opposing player. This is in
violation of the football rules and such use can result in severe head or neck
injuries, paralysis or death to you and possible injury to your opponent.
Contact in football may result in CONCUSSION-BRAIN INJURY which no
helmet can prevent. Symptoms may include loss of consciousness or memory,
dizziness, headache, nausea or confusion. If you have symptoms, immediately
stop playing and report them to your coach, trainer and parents.
Do not return to a game or practice until all symptoms are gone and you have
received MEDICAL CLEARANCE. Ignoring this warning may lead to another
and more serious or fatal brain injury.
"Even as evidence mounts
about the connection between
head injuries and CTE,
the number of colleges
offering football
isn’t shrinking.
In fact, it’s growing."
wbur.org 8/24/18
