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The NFL’s Concussion Problem Just Got A Lot Worse
Michael Kasdan discusses the breaking evidence showing that the extent of football’s link to brain trauma is serious and far worse than expected.—-A few weeks ago, in this very space, I wrote that...
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High School Football Deaths Stir Memories of Ugly Youth Football Moments
With evidence of the danger of the game mounting, and last week’s death on the high school football field, Brian Harmon suggests that the time has come to make much-needed changes. —What follows is a...
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Ex-NFL Player Talks Brain Trauma, Greed and Blame: Part 1
Former 49’ers defensive tackle, George Visger, talks about his hundreds of concussions, 9 emergency brain surgeries and “NFL bullsh*t” In 1980, George Visger was a 6th round NFL draft pick by the New...
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Ex-NFL Player Talks Brain Trauma, Greed and Blame: Part 2
In Part 2 of this interview, former 49’ers defensive tackle, George Visger, says he lost everything due to NFL-induced head trauma and offers common sense rule changes to protect NFL players going...
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Concussions, Football and the Disposability of Men
Embed from Getty Images—It is hard to dismiss the overwhelming evidence of footballs’ hold on American culture. It’s equal parts modesty and showmanship, fast paced and instant replay, gritty and...
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Anxiety, Depression, and Traumatic Brain Injury
Living with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be a very lonely, painful place. It’s a place that is often misunderstood, and a place that no one is talking about.When I first fell on a patch of ice...
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Brother Honors Brother by Fighting Teen Suicide
Embed from Getty Images—Nine-year-old Carson Barry lost his seventeen-year-old brother Cullen in 2011. After years of playing ice hockey and suffering repeated head trauma, as well as three...
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Why Do so Many People Care About CTE?
RSVP for CTE Football Calls People are not disposable I can’t imagine a more horrific experience than watch a person you love change into a pain-ridden shadow of their former self. The deterioration...
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Is it Immoral to Watch Football?
Francisco Javier López Frías, Pennsylvania State University and Cesar R. Torres, The College at Brockport, State University of New York For a large swath of Americans, fall means football. But, as in...
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3 Eye-Movement Problems That Predict Post-Concussion Syndrome
by Jonathan Chung, DC When most people think about eye problems, they are going to think about problems like blurriness, near-sightedness, or double vision. However, there are different problems that...
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