[net-gold] SPORTS MEDICINE : SPORTS: INJURIES : MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: CONCUSSIONS : SPORTS: FOOTBALL: Parents Rethinking the Game of Football
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- Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 12:54:22 -0400 (EDT)
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SPORTS MEDICINE :
SPORTS: INJURIES :
MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: CONCUSSIONS :
SPORTS: FOOTBALL:
Parents Rethinking the Game of Football
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Parents Rethinking the Game of Football
Specter of head injuries extends to the parental level
By Steve Hummer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Sports
11:19 a.m. Sunday, May 20, 2012
http://www.ajc.com/sports/parents-rethinking-the-game-1441556.html
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Hundreds of former players their numbers seemingly swelling by the week
are suing the NFL. They say the league mishandled their head injuries,
leaving them with long-term brain damage.
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Within just the past month, two former pros, Junior Seau and Ray
Easterling, have committed suicide. Had their minds been shorted out by
football? Were they martyrs to our lust for violent sport?
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The answers to those questions could fundamentally impact America's chosen
game.
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At the household level, it comes down to one intimate question:
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Should my child play football?
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The question has been asked by worried parents since Pop Warner was
coaching the single wing and is being posed even more so now here in the
Age of Concussion Angst.
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"I just got off the phone with an old friend whose son is starting ninth
grade spring football practice. We talked for a half an hour about that
very issue. It's on everyone's mind," said Bruce Hagen, an Atlanta
attorney who is co-counsel for more than 200 players who have filed suit
against the NFL.
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snip
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Feelings take over
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are
more than 55,000 cases of traumatic brain injury concussions mostly per
year throughout all of high school football. More awareness has meant more
reporting of concussions, and the growing numbers have prompted the CDC to
declare sports-related traumatic brain injuries an epidemic.
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Facts sometimes fail parents who are looking for a definitive
to-play-or-not-to-play solution. Any long-term damage done by playing
football has not been quantified. In fact, the CDC's Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health just released a records-based study of more
than 3,400 NFL players who were in the league for at least five years
between 1959-1988 and found that they had a lower death rate than the
general population. That included death by heart disease, cancer and, yes,
suicide. The Institute plans to similarly study the incidence of early
Alzheimer's and other cognitive issues.
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Dr. Steve Kroll of Georgia Sports Medicine estimates that he has seen more
than 1,000 concussion cases in the past two years. Maybe 20 percent of
those involve football. Other sources may surprise you.
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"One in particular is cheerleading," he said. "They don't have pads. They
don't have helmets. And they actually suffer quite a few concussions."
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In the absence of fact, feelings take over.
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Attorney Hagen still insists that football is "the best sport for kids to
play," even though he's heard firsthand from pros whose heads have been
battered,
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Kids "learn more about themselves and about what it takes to be part of a
team from football than from anything else I've seen," said Hagen, who
walked on for one season at Florida and still keeps personal contact with
the game as a PA announcer for the North Springs High program. "I would
not be the person I am today had it not been for my experience playing
football."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
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