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Txt, I don't know if you are being purposely daft, but the point is not IF the head injury will happen. IT WILL HAPPEN. Guarantee. It is not about playing it safe just in case. It is a guaranteed bad outcome. What is so hard to understand about that?
No football in this family. My oldest son experienced a traumatic brain injury when he was fairly young, and his pediatric neurologist very strongly advised against all contact sports to reduce the risk of further damage. Fortunately, he took well to competitive swimming, and my other kids followed suit.
I played football through college, and if my son wants to, we will allow him to try out. I think the most important thing is we have so much more information now, than we did 5, 10, 15 years ago. I'm only 30, but when it came to concussions, we got the standard "how many fingers am I holding up" questions. I think now, we have a much better understanding of how to deal with them, and schools will be doing a much better job implementing rules when kids get them. I think provides a lot of benefits, and I don't want to deprive my kid of the opportunity if he wants to play.
Well, my father was a football player, loved it! Died a slow horrid death from Alzheimer's in his early 70's. It started in his late 60's. He also suffered an Aneurysm before that. I clearly think if it was me, and I loved something a lot that I was already doing, maybe I'd take that chance, but my son, no way. He can't grow up loving or missing what he doesn't do yet. I'll skip it.
No contact sports for my group. There are plenty of sports that are good for you, and just as rewarding. Why would I take the chance? It's just a game.
I took a soccer ball to the face in February. After the initial dizziness and the warm roar behind my forehead came a wave of bottomless sadness unlike anything I'd ever felt before. As my teammates kept playing, I sat groggily on the bench and decided that the manner in which I'd been hurt, arriving late to a defensive play in my team's own end, perfectly embodied all the failings of my adult life: I had no discipline, no foresight; my life goals were all pipe dreams that laziness had let slip away; I couldn't ever truly love the people around me. I mentioned a bit of this to the ER docs that night, and they said yes, that's one of the symptoms, it'll pass.
Every single one will have repetitive sub-concussive hits.
That is what is most worrying to me, and as I posted earlier in the thread the average adolescent football player will have 650 sub-concussive hits per season. The current research indicates these are the hits that result in damage over a lifetime.
Every single one will have repetitive sub-concussive hits.
Almost all of them will have actual concussions over the course of their football career.
Do you want to play roulette with figuring out how many it took to create noticeable brain damage?
What age group are you talking about? My son played football for 4 years (youth sports, prior to high school). Never once got a concussion. Even close. Now basketball......
That said, I was relieved he chose to not play high school football, but glad he experienced playing at some level.
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