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Will Concussions Keep Youth from Football? (Op-Ed)
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Will Concussions Keep Youth from Football? (Op-Ed)
Westfield Times
http://www.westfieldtimes.com/science/
will-concussions-maintain-youngsters-from-soccer-op-ed/33501/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/h9a4mrc
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You hear about it in news stories and see it in movies: People are
struggling to understand what the risk is of a concussion causing
long-term brain damage. Their biggest fear is that they will develop ,
which results in abnormal deposits of proteins in the brain, possibly
causing a severe form of early onset dementia. Despite its discovery in
1957 by renowned neurologist Dr. Macdonald Critchley, CTE was only
recently defined, diagnostically, by a U.S. National Institutes of Health
(NIH)-funded committee, when the members met to in February 2015.
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Now, with the opening of the movie Concussion, starring Will Smith, which
tells the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who discovered CTE in
Mike Webster and several other NFL players, more attention is being paid
to the long-term . The movie is an emotional portrayal of patients with
CTE, and resulted in a calling for a ban on football, hockey and soccer in
children under the age of 18. [ ]
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But is a ban for children in sports the right answer? The public response
that followed Dr. Omalus editorial about an all-out ban has been mixed.
Some people have said that they believe that this goes way too far, with
potentially negative implications for a childs social and emotional
development. Other parents who are fearful of CTE have said that, until we
have further information about the exact mechanisms and genetic influences
that define a higher-risk profile for developing CTE, it might be safest
to put such a ban in place.
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Can governments legislate risk?
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There are three reasons why a ban is the wrong answer. First, its
impossible to legislate away all adolescent risk-taking behaviors. The
adolescent brain is not fully myelinated the nerves have not fully
attained their coverings. Rather than sending signals through relatively
few established pathways, as it does in adults, the brain tries multiple
pathways. Thus, the adolescent brain has high synaptic plasticity (the
ability to change direction) and is wildly creative, relative to the more
inhibited, fully myelinated and degenerating adult brain.
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Legislation wont change this biological fact: Children are more impulsive,
less restrained and more inclined to take risks. : In tackle football,
there are about 10 deaths per million participants per year (not all due
to brain trauma), but it is still less risky than equestrian sports (20
deaths per million per year) and skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding or
bicycling (each with 10 to 15 deaths per million per year).
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Losing more than game play
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The second reason not to eliminate tackle football is that its not
entirely clear that eliminating all risk-taking behaviors from childhood
is in the interest of our society.
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When theyre playing football, children learn to assess risk based not only
on their own capabilities, but also on the capabilities of their
teammates, who are there to protect the other members of the team and work
for everyones interests. This capacity for rapid risk assessment and plan
execution, and the reliance on teamwork and the assessment of evolving
challenges may serve our children well in their later professional lives.
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Without the experience of some risk in childhood, we might not have adults
who engage in risk-taking behaviors like astronauts, explorers,
entrepreneurs, fire rescue personnel or surgeons, for example. In our
book, The Football Decision, we surveyed neurosurgical department chairs
and brain injury experts, and found that they are at least 16 times more
likely than typical undergraduates to have played sports in college. They
are 1.5 times more likely than the average American to have sustained a
concussion. And, 83 percent of neurosurgeons would allow their own
children to play sports.
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Clearly, we do not yet understand all the risks and benefits of sports.
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Topics Covered in This Article:
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What are the true long-term effects?
Caution for concussions
Disclosures
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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