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Concussions are frequent in high school football. Football has the highest rate of concussion among high school sports, with about 11 concussions occurring per 10,000 athletic exposures. [110] About 50 high school or younger football players across the country were killed or sustained serious head injuries on the field since 1997. [111]
The study found that, as reported by athletic trainers, college football players sustain 6.3 concussions for every 10,000 athletic exposures (meaning an individual practice or game), and the rate for high school football players is 11.2. The high school concussion figure is nearly double that of the next-highest sport, lacrosse. The study ...
An awareness of the risk of concussions in other sports began to grow in the 1990s, and especially in the mid-2000s, in both the medical and the professional sports communities, as a result of the study of brains of prematurely deceased American football players, that showed an extremely high incidence of CTE (see concussions in American football).
Reported concussion rates have dropped slightly in the NFL over the past few years, but held relatively steady from the 2022-2023 to 2023-2024 season. The NFL reported a 52% drop in concussions ...
Just a single concussion in a lifetime increases the likelihood of eventually being diagnosed by 57%, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation. ... “Football is such a big part of American ...
Minutes of an FA meeting in 1983 indicate it was "aware of the dangers" of concussion in football, say former players.
Changes to the rules or the practices of enforcing existing rules in sports, such as those against "head-down tackling", or "spearing", which is associated with a high injury rate, may also prevent concussions. [5] The National Football League (NFL) implemented the sideline concussion assessment protocol in 2011 which oversees the treatment of ...
Steinberg has specialized in representing star quarterbacks as an agent. He presented the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft eight times, while representing 62 total first-round picks.