COALITION FOR CONCUSSION-FREE SCHOOLS
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​"In my opinion,
a concussion is a permanent
​brain injury."

Dennis L. Molfese, Ph.D.
"One season
of football

in theory
could give
you
CTE."
Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. 
“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.” 


New paper: "League and state policies that restrict how often school sports programs allow children to engage in repetitive, risky sports techniques may reduce overuse injuries. They may also contribute to resetting adult expectations" @prof_goldberg https://t.co/WpDZB3atbX

— Dr Kathleen Bachynski (@bachyns) August 28, 2018
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 Catastrophic
College
​Experiences 101

Scary scene as UCF cornerback Aaron Robinson is stretchered off after the opening kickoff. pic.twitter.com/75diQqSarS

— Sporting News (@sportingnews) August 30, 2018
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."
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​High School:
A Course
​In Collisions

NEXT MAN UP!
Your weekly catastrophic football injury report.
Tomorrow, for the first time this year. high school football teams in all 50 states will be competing. @ConcernedMom9 @kimberlyarchie @NFLObjectors pic.twitter.com/NMKxGrgOe2

— Kent Johnson (@37919KJ) August 30, 2018

KC family questioning Center High’s treatment of football player with broken neckhttps://t.co/8Z2DZ2eUA4

— Concerned Mom (@ConcernedMom9) August 31, 2018
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Brain Injuries
​& The Heart

The Conversation  8/19/18

How concussion stresses the heart, to protect the brain https://t.co/YKJbaHXLG2 pic.twitter.com/pA6Fuh90JO

— Concerned Mom (@ConcernedMom9) August 19, 2018
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How concussion stresses the heart, to protect the brain https://t.co/VAqtnRsmoH via @ConversationCA

— Concerned Mom (@ConcernedMom9) August 19, 2018


​Dire Prediction
or
Statistical Likelihood?
​

Before this season is over, at least 5000 high school football players will be transported to hospital by ambulance on Friday nights.
At least three dozen will go by helicopter.

— Kent Johnson (@37919KJ) August 17, 2018
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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."
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https://t.co/5mHjC1GBxq

— Melanie George (@Melanie__George) August 10, 2018
Invisible Injuries
The Conversation  8/10/18
​"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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Zanier et al. report that single severe TBI induces tau pathology in humans and mice. Studies in mice suggest that the pathology is self-propagating and can be transmitted between animals, causing brain dysfunction like a prion. https://t.co/wrepUYf9i0 pic.twitter.com/a0GfSnfUED

— Brain (@Brain1878) August 1, 2018
The Odds
*For HS Senior Players

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.
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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.”

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​Have You Ever
Read
A Football Helmet
Warning Sticker?



Take the Football Helmet Warning Sticker Challenge https://t.co/m6RPX5pjr5 via @goodmenproject

— Concerned Mom (@ConcernedMom9) August 9, 2018

​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

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