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Post by ♫anna♫ on Feb 13, 2013 12:04:05 GMT
A number of US high school players have been crippled for life during football games! There is often no insurance to cover these injuries! Rocky Clark, who is presented in this video later gave up the will to live and has since died!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2013 12:56:51 GMT
We had a thread a while back about the dangers of helmets and body armour in what we call American football. The theory was that all this protective clothing just made players attack more aggressively, and the speed at which they do it can cause serious brain or spinal problems. I'll see if I can find a link to this theory. Yes, here is one; I think it is probably now more than just a theory:
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But what happens to an NFL player’s brain when he hurtles into an opponent at speed? ‘These enormously heavy and strong guys are wearing a large amount of protective clothing and they run into each other at very high speed and they’re stopped in a second as they hit each other,’ said John Hardy, professor of neuroscience at University College London. ‘The trouble is that inside their head their brain keeps moving. Your brain is on a stalk – your spinal cord – and it’s floating in liquid. Your head is like a goldfish jar and you’ve got your brain in there and it’s on a floppy stalk and it shakes about. ‘It gets bruised on the front and back as it bangs backwards and forwards and the nerve fibres get sheared as well. That causes immediate damage and that sometimes leads to obvious concussion.’ However, he said in the months and years that follow, a player who suffers concussion can develop personality changes, making them short-tempered and violent. He said players’ brains can have a lot of the same characteristics as Alzheimer’s sufferers. Prof Hardy said protective helmets worn by American football players can only do so much. ‘I don’t think the helmet helps. Whatever you do to protect the head, the brain is going to flop about inside the skull. The brain is twisting around inside the skull. There’s nothing you can do about that with this type of protection. ‘What they’ve done, by the rules they’ve brought in, is reduce the amount of superficial damage to the face, but this is not dealing with the problem of what’s happening inside the brain. I suspect all of this padding has made things worse.’ He is not alone in that view......
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Post by Hunny on Feb 13, 2013 14:09:38 GMT
Yea, that game's a bit brutal.
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Post by Hunny on Feb 13, 2013 14:13:20 GMT
yikes @ our brains being able to 'flop about'
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