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We were delighted to hear the news from the scottish footballing associations, delighted because of what it is doing is recognising the seriousness of repetitive head impacts. research is showing causation between repetitive head impacts and chronic traumatic... the national institute of health in the united states and field research you mentioned earlier. we have previously been given a lot of attention to symptomatic concussions and concussion protocols. but we actually need to recognise the reduction of heading in training and possibly in the game is the key to protecting the players in the...

During practice. something that jumped out is a lost head impacts are happening in practice as opposed to on game day. they could have them both places but a lot of focus has been on concussions during game day. what about head impacts the rest of the time. here are the different types of drills for example people will go through when their practicing. and then look at different drills and said what is the likelihood of a head impact in these drills and they found certain drills were far more likely to create impacts than other drills and when you broke it down even further, you found for exam...

Measured and it is close to 100 per play in the high school football players. >> we hear this a lot of on quarterbacks, but did the results different for different positions? >> yeah. it was interesting. and this may not surprise you that much but linemen were the most likely to have these sorts of head impacts. people woho are lining up with head impact and then tight ends and then running backs, quarterbacks were further down the list and the least likely according to this study were receivers. this is data. on average 100 impacts per player, but again some far more than others depending on ...

A little bit emotional about it, to be honest. like, you see all this stuff and people say, "0h, was it worth it?" i say no, it wasn't, because i'd rather not be such a burden on the family. and as the evidence of a link between head impacts and illness grows, campaigners are calling for sport's ruling bodies to move faster. we need to change how we play these games to minimise repetitive hits to the head. that means changing how we practise. that means fewer drills that involve head impacts. that means changing the rules when we identify rules that can be changed that would minimise the numbe...

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