Nfl Head Injuries

Junior Seau's Brain Donated For Research

AP | BERNIE WILSON | Posted 05.05.2012

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Junior Seau's brain will be donated by his family for research into football-related head injuries. San Diego Chargers chaplain Shawn Mitchell said...

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The NFL: The No Future League

Will Bunch | Posted 05.03.2012

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The league needs to tackle its inconvenient truth -- that for the remarkable athletes who've made their game into a $9-billion-a-year enterprise, the NFL is fast becoming the No Future League.

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How Many Deaths Will It Take?

Leigh Steinberg | Posted 05.03.2012

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I knew Junior Seau since the day in 1990 when he and his friends partied back stage after he was drafted. Now he is dead at only 43 years-old.

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Longtime Falcons Safety Dies

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 04.23.2012

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ATLANTA -- Former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, who helped lead the team's vaunted defense in the 1970s and later filed a high-profile lawsui...

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Big Hits, Broken Dreams

Dr. Sanjay Gupta | Posted 03.26.2012

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I love the game of football. I went to a Big Ten school, and my wife and I still return to our alma mater for games. But the game can and should be safer.

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NFL Makes 2 Changes In Concussion Protocols

AP | BARRY WILNER | Posted 02.20.2012

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NEW YORK — The NFL is changing how it handles concussion examinations after Browns quarterback Colt McCoy went back into a Dec. 8 game without b...

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Browns QB Diagnosed With Concussion

AP | By TOM WITHERS | Posted 12.10.2011

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BEREA, Ohio -- Browns coach Pat Shurmur strongly defended his team's handling of Colt McCoy after the quarterback sustained a concussion during Thursd...

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Brain Trauma Found In Three-Time NFL Champ

AP | By JIMMY GOLEN | Posted 12.08.2011

BOSTON -- Lew Carpenter never had any concussions – or at least none that his family knew about back in the 1950s and '60s, when he played for t...

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From Head Injury to Head Case: 3 Reasons to Expand the NFL Brain Beyond Concussion Awareness

Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cortical damage or bruising of the brain can have a dramatic affect on emotional and physical health. It is about time that public awareness increased regarding this growing problem.

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As Awareness Increases, Solutions Near for Football's Concussion Issue

Stephen Montemayor | Posted 05.25.2011

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What we don't know can hurt us, sometimes fatally. So it is encouraging to see a continued increase in dialogue on concussions in football.

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Football Players as Battering Rams

Helene Pavlov, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am constantly disappointed that for all the biomedical and neurological research identifying the dangers to athletes when they charge head first at one another, there has not been a coordinated effort response to remedy. Where is the public outcry?

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Concussion!

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LANDOVER, Md. — Quarterback Aaron Rodgers got a concussion late in Green Bay's 16-13 overtime loss to the Washington Redskins, one of several in...

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Contact Sports And the Adolescent Brain

Helene Pavlov, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Neurologists are still learning not only how the brain works, but how it matures. Chronic trauma to the brain at a young age could possibly lead to chronic progressive disabling neurological disorders later on.

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Con Games: Football Playing Head Games

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Football on the pro and the collegiate level is on the brink of a catastrophe that you can see coming a mile away: somebody is going to die. Don't you think it might help if helmets wouldn't fall off?

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Head Games And Youth Sports: Have We Gone Too Far?

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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We have to ask, what is the risk of letting our children participate in contact sports and what can be done to protect them?

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Know the A, B, Cs of Head Injury

Helene Pavlov, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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What many parents and children do not understand are the dangers associated with sports related head injuries.

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NFL Players Donate Brains: More Players Pledge Brains For Research

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON — Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Haynes and current Chicago Bears linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer are among more than a dozen NFL players ...

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Football Broadcasts Reflect More Serious Tone on Concussions

New York Times | ALAN SCHWARZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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A little less crack! accompanies the televised collisions between National Football League behemoths these days. Players are tackling as hard as ever....

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NFL Concussions: Players Fear, Hide Brain Injuries

AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 05.25.2011

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Washington Redskins kick returner Rock Cartwright remembers his brain "shaking like a bell" when he was walloped in a game against the New York Giants...

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NFL Acknowledges Long-Term Concussion Effects

New York Times | ALAN SCHWARZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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After weeks of transforming its approach to concussions and its research into their long-term effects among players, the N.F.L. not only announced Sun...

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Two NFL Concussion Experts Resign

AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 05.25.2011

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Commissioner Roger Goodell sent a wide-ranging memo about concussions to NFL teams Tuesday, saying the co-chairmen of the league's committee on brain ...

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NFL Concussion Rule Changes: Stricter Guidelines Go Into Effect This Week

AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 05.25.2011

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NFL teams now have new, stricter instructions for when players should be allowed to return to games or practices after head injuries, guidelines that ...

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NFL Brain Study: League To Ask Players To Donate Brains

AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 05.25.2011

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The NFL is partnering with Boston University brain researchers who have been critical of the league's stance on concussions, The Associated Press lear...

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NFL Concussion Expert Is Biased, Union Says

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The NFL Players Association wants the league to remove the co-chairman of the league's committee on concussions because the union bel...

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NFL Concussion Restrictions To Expand, Report Says

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly will expand restrictions on returning to games for players who sustain head trauma. Fox Sp...

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