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As more parents (including some NFL players) decide not to let their children play football, [10] [11] it remains to be seen whether football will eventually face a significant decline in popularity [12] like boxing, which fell from prominence as the brain damage suffered by ex-boxers drew more public attention. [13]
In the 2010 season for the Canadian Football League, there have been 50 reported concussions; 44.8 percent of players reported having a concussion or concussion-like symptoms, 16.9 percent had confirmed that they had a concussion, and 69.6 percent of all players who suffered from concussions that year suffered from more than one. [92]
He was the fifth AFL player in the previous ten months to retire with concussion related injuries, with Sam Blease (25 yo, Melbourne and Geelong), Jack Fitzpatrick (26 yo, Hawthorn and Melbourne Football Club), Leigh Adams (27 yo, North Melbourne), Matt Maguire (32 yo, Brisbane and St Kilda), and Brent Reilly (32 yo, Adelaide) all having ...
The NFL saw its fewest number of concussions in the preseason since tracking started in 2015. There were 44 concussions in practices and games, a decrease of about 24% from last year. “The ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says a young tackle football athlete has a median of 378 head impacts in a season, which is 15 times more than flag football. Show comments ...
Reaction from Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, players and medical experts in the wake of Tua Tagovailoa sustaining his third confirmed concussion in 25 months, in a 31-10 loss to Buffalo on Thursday ...
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).
Another was a high school football player in 2001, well before concussions grabbed national attention with revelations of athletes − including former NFL players − playing with them and ...