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Concussion in adolescence and risk of multiple sclerosis

Post by greybeard58 » Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:08 pm

Concussion in adolescence and risk of multiple sclerosis

Interpretation: Head trauma in adolescence, particularly if repeated, is associated with a raised risk of future multiple sclerosis, possibly due to initiation of an autoimmune process in the central nervous system. This further emphasises the importance of protecting young people from head injuries.

Concussion in adolescence and risk of multiple sclerosis - Montgomery - 2017 - Annals of Neurology
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Concussions Can Hurt More Than Your Brain

Post by greybeard58 » Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:10 pm

Concussions Can Hurt More Than Your Brain

Rob Lynall was working as an athletic trainer when he started noticing that his athletes returning to the field after recovering from a concussion were suffering more lower body injuries like ACL tears and ankle sprains than other players. They tested normally on all the measures of concussion recovery, but they kept coming back a few months later with other problems.

"I didn't have any data, that was just our experience," says Lynall, who's now a professor at the University of Georgia. But when he started doing concussion research a few years later, he focused in on the relationship between concussion and injury risk—and in December 2015, he published a study in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise that backed his anecdotal observation up with real data: For up to a year, he found that athletes who had a concussion were twice as likely to have a lower body injury as athletes who did not.

More research is piling up to back up the anecdotal evidence. Daniel Herman, professor of sports medicine presented data on injury risk at the American Society for Sports Medicine conference in 2013, and published a paper with those results in August 2016. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Delaware reached similar conclusions.

Now, researchers are drawing connections between these findings and past research on changes a concussion causes to balance and movement. Those changes linger long after other symptoms of a concussion have gone away, and may contribute to the noted rate of injury—there's even some indication that they could lead to increased risk of arthritis."We know traumatic injuries predispose people to arthritis later in life, and changes in gait due to those injuries can hasten osteoarthritis," Lynall says. "If people have concussion and changes in gait, and it's for prolonged time, maybe it's setting folks up for arthritis."

Concussions Can Hurt More Than Your Brain
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Post by goldy313 » Sat Sep 30, 2017 12:10 am

Irony is not the right word...... i just sat through a lecture today that put forth the concept that many times a secondary injury happens after a blow that causes a concussion i.e.the concussive blow causes you to be off balance and disoriented thus allowing another injury. One of the examples was of a girls soccer player who butted heads with an oppenent, immediately after she was run into by a team member and suffered an ACL tear. The concussion was not diagnosed due to the focus on the knee injury.

Op ed only........I wonder if Trump's kneeling tweets were designed to take focus away from the findings Aaron Hernendez had grade 3 CTE, which was revealed a day prior.

USA hockey is being pressured into eliminating checking until age 16......this would be disasterous for high school hockey.

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Post by greybeard58 » Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:22 pm

Jessica Dunne Concussion?

Jessica Dunne, Ohio State
Jincy is fine, just to clarify here, but I believe Jessica's hockey career is over due to concussion issues. It's sad that it had to happen for her senior year. She has been through a lot here. But, I think it is for the best. I know she would love to be out on the ice with her teammates, but I think she should be commended for thinking about life after hockey and deciding to do what is best for her health at this point. We will just have to manage with six or possibly seven D's this season.

http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?1 ... ason/page2

Yeah, I knew it was Jessica but had not heard she had a problem. Any chance she might recover ala Kessel? That is a crappy way to end a career. You are right about the health thing, I worry about those kids & how often they I hear about surgery for hips, knees and even shoulders. They will be 60 one day and I hope they don't regret having played. Brains are another thing all together and they should always error on the side of caution.

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Alyssa Grogan's Serious Brain Injury

Post by greybeard58 » Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:24 pm

Alyssa Grogan's Serious Brain Injury

Alyssa Grogan

"As I approached my senior year of college, I had suffered a pretty serious brain injury. I was still on the team but no longer able to play and had medically withdrawn from three consecutive semesters of school to allow my brain time to heal. During that time, I was a double major in Business Marketing Education and Management. I loved my business classes but struggled with what I wanted to do "when I grew up." Through my injury, I was really stripped of my identity, which had always been previously tied up in being an athlete. I spent many hours tagging behind Anissa Lightner to multiple community service events. As I began to process that I would never be able to play sports again, I found a new identity in the service of others.

In a lame attempt to finally put an adult resume together as graduation loomed, I was encouraged to apply for the Teach for America program by Anissa Lightner. She believed I would make a really good prospect. I believed I was desperate to finally force myself into the real world and the first step was to put a resume together. About half way through the interview process (a series of five interviews), I really fell in love with Teach for America's mission "to serve children who are traditionally underserved." When I was accepted into the program, I knew it was going to be one of the most challenging things I ever did.

… I cannot play hockey anymore due to my injury and never will again."

Backpack to Briefcase: Alyssa Grogan
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Kelly Murray’s Two Concussions and Broken Collarbone

Post by greybeard58 » Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:28 pm

Kelly Murray’s Two Concussions and Broken Collarbone

University is a tough experience. Especially when you are trying to handle being an athlete and committing 5+ hours a day, not to mention your whole weekend, to your sport. It’s a commitment that many people who are just regular students in university can have a hard time relating to and understanding. But I am so grateful for the university experience I was given.

I spent two years in the states at Cornell University with a great group of girls, but two concussions and a broken collarbone had me reflecting on what I really needed in my University experience.

Finding Happiness Again
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Post by greybeard58 » Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:30 pm

A Former U-M Hockey Player’s Advice: ‘Take Concussion Risk Seriously’

SHELLEY ZALEWSKI October 03, 2017 6:00 AM

After sustaining multiple blows to the head during his college hockey career, a Wolverine returns to campus decades later for specialized neurological help.
Both on and off the ice, former University of Michigan hockey player Ray Dries has a reputation for never giving up.

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During his three seasons with U-M (1982-85) Dries scored 28 goals and performed 37 assists.

Although his collegiate hockey career had many memorable moments, the most significant may be the one he remembers least: During a 1983 game against Michigan Technical University, Dries was hit hard from behind, falling headfirst into the boards.

After sitting out the next part of the game, he insisted on returning to the ice that same night.

“I felt like I was floating on the ice the rest of the game,” says Dries, now 56. “I don’t remember the actual hit; I saw it later, on the game film.”

As was common practice at the time, Dries didn’t receive prompt medical attention for his concussion, convincing his coaches that he could continue practicing and playing.

In the years since hanging up his skates, Dries found himself struggling more and more — first with memory, then with coordination and balance issues.

Looking for answers, he came to Michigan NeuroSport in 2012.

Multiple hits, many symptoms
The team at Michigan NeuroSport, a Michigan Medicine program that specializes in neurologic care for athletes, conducted a thorough evaluation to determine the origin and extent of Dries’ symptoms.

SEE ALSO: The Dangers of Untreated Concussions in Kids’ Sports

Neuropsychometric testing helped doctors better characterize the patient’s memory issues.

Many of his muscle-related problems fit a pattern of ataxia — a neurological condition impacting muscle control, coordination and balance — but additional testing revealed subtle signs of two rare conditions: dystonia (uncontrolled muscle contractions) and chorea (involuntary twitching).

Beyond understanding how his cluster of symptoms developed and progressed over the years, the team also considered the fact that Dries endured multiple blows to the head during his career — not just the one hit that resulted in his major 1983 concussion.

They concluded that Dries’ condition met the criteria for a relatively new clinical diagnosis: traumatic encephalopathy syndrome (TES), a degenerative condition resulting from one or more severe blows to the head.

Clinical researchers at Michigan NeuroSport are at the forefront of proposing a framework for describing TES that can be used to arrive at a diagnosis in living patients.

Their work, published June 2016 in the journal JAMA Neurology, is a vital step toward earlier intervention and more effective treatments.

Another neurologic condition, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (or CTE), may also arise from multiple head impacts and concussion. More widely reported in the media, CTE can only be definitively diagnosed under a microscope after death.

The relationship between CTE and TES is unknown; a person who has one does not necessarily have the other.


Ray Dries, center, pictured during his time playing for the University of Michigan men's hockey team.

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Athletes being warned about opiate addiction dangers

Post by greybeard58 » Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:32 pm

Athletes being warned about opiate addiction dangers


“Children prescribed opiates before the age of 18 are 33 percent more likely to get hooked.”

...It all seems to start innocently enough. A player gets hurt. He/she wants to still play. One way to make that possible is by taking an opiate drug. That drug, like Oxycontin or a Percocet, reduces the pain and provides a strong feeling – a high, let’s just say – to the athlete.

It becomes a vicious cycle. First the athlete takes the drug so he/she can play. Then the athlete turns to the drug for the high alone.

...Valente said studies have shown, especially in young people, an opiate can change brain chemistry in less than a week.

Athletes being warned about opiate addiction dangers
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Post by goldy313 » Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:11 am

A bill being sent though many state legislatures requires parents to read and sign documents advising the risks of brain injury in contact sports, much like tabacco, is opposed by the MSHSL.....among others including Mayo Clinic sports medicine. Money triumphs all......

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Isabelle Germain Concussion

Post by greybeard58 » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:19 pm

Isabelle Germain
Germain was a hockey star in her own right, before a concussion in high school sidelined her.

“Concussion is really what ended it,” she said. “It was my last year of high school hockey, just after March break, the end of the season, and I got blindsided right in the middle of the ice and got knocked out cold.”

The results were devastating.

“Unfortunately, that happened before Sidney Crosby got hit, because talk on concussions was so hush-hush before,” she said. “I was rushed to the hospital and I had a neck injury, ribs were hit, my shoulder was hurt, my hip was really messed up, so there were so many scary things going on at the surface that looking at my head was not their main concern.”

Germain said she rested after the hit, but resumed training that summer at Dalhousie but noticed she felt different on the ice - something wasn’t right.

“I had been upset, I had pain I had never felt before, I couldn’t open my eyes in the light,” she said. “As soon as Crosby got hit, my doctor got a report from other doctors sharing information and they then knew what we should do, and it was pretty immediate, they called and said ‘get her off the ice.’”

Germain did a CT Scan and an MRI and results showed some serious concussion trauma.

“I struggled with depression, I failed out of school,” she said. “There’s always an excuse with concussions, like ‘it’s her first year away from her family,’ or I was homesick or not adapting well to university life, but I knew at the end of the day that it wasn’t that.”

She said she doesn’t shy away from talking about her concussion because it helped to inspire her university degree - health promotion, where she focused her research on concussions.

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Concussion Recovery Is Slower in Girls

Post by greybeard58 » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:21 pm

Concussion Recovery Is Slower in Girls

Across the sexes, concussion is common in contact sports such as soccer and hockey, where heads bang and helmets clash. And, over the years, the public has become more aware of the serious health effects associated with repeated blows to the head.

...Overall, this latest study adds to a growing body of literature that shows girls have a higher incidence of concussions than boys and might also experience more persistent symptoms, says Robert Cantu, a neurosurgeon and professor at Boston University who did not take part in the new research. “This is one of the most robust studies in terms of the numbers of people involved,” he says, confirming “girls take longer to recover.”

Concussion Recovery Is Slower in Girls, Mounting Evidence Suggests
A new study adds to findings that female children and adolescents are more susceptible to head injuries
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Jincy Dunne Concussions

Post by greybeard58 » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:23 pm

Jincy Dunne Concussions

Q: On a more serious note, you’ve had some concussion issues, right? How many have you had and how did you get them?
A: I have received multiple concussions. Some were from hockey, and some were accidents from messing around playing with some friends.

Q: Has it changed the way you play?
A: Being out for almost two years, I definitely appreciate the opportunity to play more and I try not to take it for granted.

Meet a Buckeye: Jincy Dunne, women’s hockey
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Health Summit

Post by greybeard58 » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:25 pm

Health Summit Oct 24 and 25: Alzheimer's, CTE & other neurological diseases

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Powering Precision Health Summit
October 24th-25th, 2017
Cambridge, MA at the Charles Hotel

Powering Precision Health 2017 will focus on two of the most destructive and problematic disease categories—neurology and oncology—and will also feature deep dives into metabolic disease, including cardiac disease, infectious disease and inflammation. The powerhouse speaker line-up will present their latest progress on traumatic brain injury, concussions, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), Alzheimer’s, ALS, early detection and diagnosis of multiple cancer types, liquid biopsy, diabetes, cardiovascular health monitoring, exposing hidden HIV, and digitizing the immune system for the first time.

“Precision health is focused on finding a cure for Alzheimer’s, CTE and other neurological diseases,” explained Dr. Ann McKee, M.D., Professor of Neurology & Pathology, Boston University Medical School, and featured speaker at Powering Precision Health 2017. “I’m delighted to participate in the summit and very optimistic that we will soon find a way to diagnose CTE in living humans using biomarkers, and ultimately a cure for these devastating diseases. The groundswell of research in these diseases is truly inspiring.”

For more info: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170921005941/en

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how dangerous is youth hockey?

Post by greybeard58 » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:26 pm

When it comes to brain injuries, how dangerous is youth hockey?

When it comes to brain injuries, how dangerous is youth hockey?
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waiver acknowledging risk of brain injuries

Post by greybeard58 » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:29 pm

waiver acknowledging risk of brain injuries

Rick Westhead of TSN: "One question raised at this hearing: should parents of kids in football, hockey have to sign a waiver acknowledging risk of brain injuries?"

Traumatic Brain Injuries in Sports House Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce and Judiciary committees hosted a forum to discuss traumatic brain injuries. Doctors and brain injury specialists testified on the latest research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Former NFL players and family members also testified about their experiences and health challenges since their time playing football, and shared their observations about what the NFL and private youth football organizations are doing-or not doing-to address player safety.

Watch at https://www.c-span.org/video/?435696-1/ ... n-injuries


Levy recently testified before a Congressional subcommittee on the dangers of concussions and CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy).
During that testimony, Levy revealed that he received "two calls" from the Lions in which he was told he "shouldn't talk about" CTE publicly.

..."It's my brain. It's not my shoulder, it's my brain. It controls everything I do, it controls everything we think, everything we feel," Levy continued. "And if I don't have the right to speak about that as a player, I think it really speaks about the culture of the NFL, of what those conversations are. I think that's indicative of the conversations that we don't hear. The closed-door conversations between owners. They still are trying to find ways to silence us."

..."My first few years in the league, I could get Vicodin like Skittles," Levy said. "You can get toradol shots like it was nothing. Any anti-inflammatory painkiller that gets you through the week.

DeAndre Levy says Lions told him not to talk about CTE, got 'Vicodin like Skittles'
The former Lions linebacker claims he was told not to talk about brain damage from playing football
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dean ... -skittles/

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Post by greybeard58 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:57 am

New NYT article

Adolescents who had experienced one concussion were about 22 percent more likely to later develop M.S. than those who had not had such head trauma. The risk rose by about 150 percent if a young person had sustained multiple concussions.

...Adolescent brains seem to be less physiologically resilient than those in younger children, he adds, making them potentially more vulnerable to long-term consequences from concussions than children.

...And for those who might have had a concussion or three during youth, “talk with your doctor,” Dr. Montgomery says, “especially if you are experiencing any symptoms” of M.S., such as double vision, dizziness or balance problems. These conditions do not necessarily indicate a developing problem, he says, but should be assessed.

Concussions in Teenagers Tied to Multiple Sclerosis Risk
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/well ... -risk.html

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Concussions affect a life

Post by greybeard58 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:00 am

Concussions affect a life. They don't just affect the ability to play a sport.

"Concussions affect a life. They don't just affect the ability to play a sport," Dryden tells The Current’s Anna Maria Tremonti.

'Concussions affect a life': Ken Dryden wants hockey rules changed to save players' lives
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How Concussions Affect Student Lives

Post by greybeard58 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:02 am

How Concussions Affect Student Lives

The Invisible Injury: How Concussions Affect Student Lives
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Diary of a Concussion

Post by greybeard58 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:04 am

Diary of a Concussion

“Your brain is a gelatinous mass, floating in a pool of cerebrospinal fluid inside your skull. A concussion occurs when the brain hits the skull, even if the person’s head doesn’t collide with an object. Whiplash alone can generate a concussion. After all, it doesn’t take much to deform Jell-O.”

Diary Of A Concussion: It’s hard to understand a brain injury until you have one
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What will they find in my brain?

Post by greybeard58 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:06 am

What will they find in my brain?

On the positive side, there are now more people than ever looking into the issue, and the focus has begun to shift from professionals and high-profile cases to high school and college athletes. While the former NFL players in BU's "110 out of 111" CTE study got all the headlines, the disease was also discovered in three of 14 former high school players, and 48 of 53 former college players. In one case, Peter Grant, a former high school football and hockey player with seven known concussions, hanged himself at the age of 49.

It's apparent you don’t need to have gone pro to feel the effects of repeated head trauma. Just look to forums like The Knockout Project, where athletes from all manner of sports are sharing their own experiences with concussions to spread awareness and engender a sense of community. Among them is former high school football player Kevin Saum, who was airlifted out of a game after suffering a severe blow to the head. Saum wrote on the blog:

At that time, concussion awareness was just beginning to pick up momentum and I was extremely uneducated about the injury. I was under the impression, that if I was not knocked unconscious, vomiting, nauseous, and had no memory problems, my headaches could not be the result of a concussion. Also, as a senior captain, I was afraid to tell my coaches and our athletic trainer about my headaches. At seventeen years old, my main mission in life was try to win a state championship with my team and for my coach to think I was tough.

I Played Youth Football For Years, What Will They Find In My Brain?
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/sports/a12437805 ... concussion

Referenced in the above article:

The Knockout Project
http://theknockoutproject.org

University of Massachusetts Lowell Poll
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ame ... a54ebfa724

"The study showed that participation in youth football before age 12 increased the risk of problems with behavioral regulation, apathy and executive functioning by two-fold and increased the risk of clinically elevated depression scores by three-fold. The increased risk was independent of the total number of years the participants played football, the number of concussions they reported, or whether they played through high school, college or professionally. The researchers chose the cutoff of age 12 because the brain undergoes a key period of development and maturation between the years 10-12 in males. They examined other age cutoffs as well, though the age 12 cutoff led to the most robust findings. In addition, even when a specific age cutoff was not used, younger age of first exposure to football was associated with worse clinical function."

Study Suggests Link between Youth Football and Later-Life Emotional, Behavioral and Cognitive Impairments
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2017/09/20 ... irments-2/

"Playing tackle football under the age of 12 exposes children to repetitive head impacts that may double their risk of developing behavioral problems and triple their chances of suffering depression later in life, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature magazine’s journal, Translational Psychiatry."

Study links youth football to greater risk of later health problems
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017 ... story.html

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First ever NIH Women's Brain Injury Workshop

Post by greybeard58 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:09 am

First ever NIH Women's Brain Injury Workshop

Workshop: Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury in Women
Meeting Date(s): Monday, December 18, 2017 to Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Location: Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, Maryland

What is the purpose of the "Understanding TBI in Women" workshop?

The "Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury in Women" workshop will bring together researchers and clinicians to identify knowledge gaps, best practices, and target populations in research that focuses on females and/or sex differences within the field of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Women are under-represented in TBI clinical trials, and the reasons for this disparity in enrollment need to be identified and addressed. In addition, pre-clinical studies have often excluded females or have used ovariectomized rather than intact animals, leading to an incomplete understanding of TBI in females.

This workshop will focus on the existing knowledge regarding sex differences in TBI research and how these differences can be incorporated in pre-clinical and clinical efforts going forward. Deliverables from the workshop will include a White Paper that can be converted into a journal publication that describes the conference, outlines the state of the science, and identifies future directions for research.

Event Website:
https://meetings.ninds.nih.gov/Home/General/16753

Understanding TBI in Women Agenda
https://meetings.ninds.nih.gov/assets/W ... Agenda.pdf

Online registration closes December 10:
https://meetings.ninds.nih.gov/Home/Registration/16753

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over 800 stories and articles

Post by greybeard58 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:29 am

First I want to Thank Goldy 313 for the courage it took to share his story and pray that things will get better.

I find it disturbing that it is getting harder to find articles of players getting concussions at the high school and younger levels when in conversations with a number of concerned people the number of actual concussions has not declined but increased just not being reported.

No athletic sport or game is more important than a child,young adult or an adults well being, if there is just one coach that puts the game in front of a players health that is one coach too many and needs to leave the sport.

As the subject line states there are over 800 stories or articles posted in this section except for a few all are public articles or published stories. Please feel free to share a personnel story of your experience such as Goldy had the courage to share his,but if it is about someone else that story needs to have a link to a published article. If you need to remain in the background then you can send me the article and link and I will post.

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Post by greybeard58 » Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:16 pm

Concussions

Brains are unselfish; they rarely think about themselves. They worry about the hand that might get burned on the stove, or the heart that needs to keep beating, or maybe even the mole on the leg that is probably nothing but should probably be looked at by a professional. Brains send alerts to favor the sore back and tell feet to walk gingerly on hot pavement. But brains generally assume they themselves will be fine.

You see this in pro sports all the time. There are stories of athletes intentionally tanking their baseline concussion tests, so that if they get hit in the head, their foggy test results wouldn’t look so bad, and they won’t be ordered to sit. When the NHL decided, in the late 1970s, that players should wear helmets, some players got so mad that they had to reach a compromise: Players who signed contracts before the ’79–80 season didn’t have to wear one. Seventeen years later Craig MacTavish was still playing NHL games without a lid.

Eric Lindros’s brain is different. It knows better. It worries. Not about itself, so much—after a 15-year NHL career that was slowed and finally stopped by concussions, Lindros, 44, says he is doing just fine. He worries about other brains: in kids on the playground, in car accident victims, in athletes at all levels.

“We can do better,” he says again and again, and this is not an idle complaint from his kitchen table. It is a mission of his postplaying life. Lindros, who retired in 2007, envisions “having the ability to sit there and get a pinprick when you’re on the bench and saying, ‘Should I go or not?’ . . . Wouldn’t that be nice? They’re getting there, but it needs funding.”

In sports today, the word concussion is often followed by the word lawsuit. But lawsuits cover the past. Lindros wants everybody to focus on the future. Like he has.

Eric Lindros is worried about everyone's concussions but his own
Read more: https://www.si.com/nhl/2017/06/29/eric- ... e-they-now

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Karen Koch head injuries

Post by greybeard58 » Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:19 pm

Karen Koch

Without Fear
The team’s popular young goaltender felt that she saw the puck better without a mask despite the danger it put her in. In press clippings from her time with the Iron Rangers a scar beneath her left eye is visible. That scar was a result of ten stitches she needed to fix a gash left by a slap shot from her father’s stick two years before her USHL debut.

Brumm had been eager to protect his rookie goalie. He ordered a mask for her and some 40 pounds of specialized equipment to keep her protected between the pipes. By Christmas Koch had stopped wearing her mask altogether, despite earning a black eye from a practice injury earlier in the season.

"Unfortunately, she seemed to have a "death wish" for a facial scar caused by a hockey puck in a USHL game. She simply and consistently defied my orders to wear a mask while playing."

With about 10 games left in the schedule, Brumm released his third goaltender. He just couldn’t reconcile Koch’s devil-may-care attitude with the attention that she brought to the the team.

Origins: The story of Karen Koch, the first woman to be paid to play
Read more: https://www.theicegarden.com/2017/7/6/1 ... id-to-play

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