A top medical journal has urged surgeons to cut all ties with football - from NFL to high school level - due to the growing swell of research showing the sport causes devastating brain injuries.
The senior editors of Springer, an orthopedics journal, said doctors should not perform physicals for college players and institutions should not sponsor professional teams.
The call comes in the wake of Boston University's landmark study on deceased players' brains, showing 110 of the 111 they examined had signs of CTE, a neurodegenerative disease which causes dementia.
'Football is not consonant with the best values of our profession,' lead author of the report Seth S. Leopold, a professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, concluded.
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This must be a false report given that 70 percent of the football league is black and 30 percent white . Having said that they need more facts with a black and white comparative analysis .
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There HAS to be some kind of mortal danger in softball, badminton, and chess.
Good advice.
ReplyDeleteThere is no danger of head injury with Badminton or Chess.
Baseball however, can on occasion lead to head contact.
Co-ed Badminton....oh yeah - that's the ticket to fun/excitement!
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