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MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: CONCUSSIONS:
The Protocol for Sports Concussion Info Dissemination: Trust and Respect
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The Protocol for Sports Concussion Info Dissemination: Trust and Respect
My take, amidst researchers criticizing media
by Ryan Basen
MedPage Today
April 20, 2017
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Blogs/sports-clinic/64680
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Matthew Futterman's piece in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday (subscription
required) about sports concussion protocol is informative, well-reported
and gripping; it features emerging research and diverse comment wrapped
around the story of a teen football player's death.
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But some researchers say this type of story is pushing kids off the field
and onto the couch, and doing so without merit.
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"The media need to learn that individual stories, however tempting, are
meaningless scientifically," said Alan Carson, a neuropsychiatrist at the
University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Speaking of soccer, he added: "In the
U.K., every time somebody who was a famous footballer gets dementia, we
get a news report that links it to football ... It seemed to me this was a
public health scare."
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Such reporting feeds public sentiment that contact sports such as football
and hockey cause concussion and neurodegenerative disease, and discourage
kids from being physically active. So say researchers in three separate
pieces published recently. They lament that coverage is skewed away from
the sports' health benefits, especially when evidence shows physical
activity can improve public health.
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"Millions of kids played football for generations and we don't see
millions of kids walking into the neurologist at 40 years old saying they
can't find their keys," said Steven Broglio, PhD, a University of Michigan
brain injury researcher.
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"Even if we accept that contact sports increase the risk of
neurodegenerative disease," Carson said, calling that a dubious link,
"there is no doubt at all that people who engage in active exercise live
longer."
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"I worry a whole generation of parents are pulling children off of sports
because of misguided fear," he added. "We need to be more realistic about
just how limited this evidence is" regarding sports and brain injury.
Indeed, a recent Harris Poll survey commissioned by the American
Osteopathic Association showed one in six parents ruling out sports
entirely because of concussion risks -- while many underestimated the risk
of non-contact sports such as gymnastics and cheerleading.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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