In the NFL 97% of all players suffer an injury during their football career. But in that same study, the NFL found that 57% of players who are injured in a game go back into the same game while they are injured. This isn't good for the athletes because they have a 78% of their injury getting worse. Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Culter, who could not go back in because he was injured, was criticized by the fans because they thought he wasn't injured and that he just didn't want to get hit anymore. Jay Cutler did go back in for 1 series but the extent of his injury increased. I applaud Jay, who is one my favorite quarterbacks, by choosing the right decision to play it safe. Mr. Cutler, like all players, wants to be looked at by the fans as the best, but who really cares??? Just because the fans won't like if you doesn't mean you should take the risk of injuring yourself even more. You may not have the respect of the fans, but you'll have the respect of me.
Connor Sudderth
Connor Sudderth
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Your comments about players playing with injuries are right, but your example of Jay Cutler is wrong. He got taken out of a game earlier this year with a concussion, but it was when he left the Championship game himself with a knee iunjury that people got mad and questioned his heart. A better example is the Eagles player that was cleared to go back into a game after getting a concussion and not even being able to walk off the field by himself.
T. Sudderth, Jr.
NFL provides Notre Dame grant to study treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury.
NFL Charities grants Notre Dame's Department of Chemistry and Biology money to design and develop therapeutics for the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury.
NFL Grant to Notre Dame. With the death last week of Notre Dame and Chicago Bears Football great, Dave Duerson, the affect of concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries are again in the forefront. Concussions are a common concern in sports with more than 300,000 in the United States last year, most involving football players. And it's becoming more and more apparent that a blow to the head can cause significant damage, and even death. But Maureen McFadden recently met with a Notre Dame Biochemistry and Biology Researcher who is working on a treatment, with a grant from the NFL Charities, that could rescue brain cells before they die, saving people from the serious consequences of brain.
Brain experts meet to further Soldier head protection
Feb 18, 2011
By C. Todd Lopez
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 17, 2011) -- Soldiers can have some of the same brain damage as boxers, according to one researcher who presented at the Soldier Protective Conference. Dr. Ann McKee, a neural pathologist from Boston University, discussed her team's research into chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, during an Army conference set up to discuss ways to protect Soldiers' brains, Feb. 17. McKee said CTE is a "progressive neurodegeneration" disorder and the symptoms have a slow "insidious onset" and tend to develop in mid-life. Symptoms include memory loss, "irritability, agitation, and a short fuse," she said. Boxers have shown particular susceptibility to CTE and have a particular form called "dementia pugilistica." McKee presented slides that demonstrated human brain specimens that were both normal and affected by CTE. The normal brains, when specially prepared with a dye, appeared blue. The diseased brains were shrunken and atrophied, and when dyed, showed brown spots in key areas -- evidence of concentrated areas of hyperphosphorylated tau protein. "There's very little hyperphosphorylated tau protein in the brain normally," she said. The bulk of the 66 brains in her team's "brain bank" are boxers and football players who had experienced repeated blows to the head during their careers. But she did have in her collection the brains of five former Soldiers. The disease, CTE, is the result of repeated trauma to the head. "This disease does develop in military veterans -- it really has been described in many different types of mild traumatic injury," McKee said. "It's less important how you get the injury, what's important is that you had repetitive injury. "This is the challenge I think with any discussion about helmet and equipment, how do we protect the brain from the long-term damage we are seeing in these players and Soldiers?" The Enhanced Combat Helmet is slightly thicker than the Advanced Combat Helmet, but is also about four ounces lighter. Also new is the second generation helmet sensor expected to be in the field by August. The sensor measures the head impact Soldiers experience in combat. The data collected from the sensors can be used to help develop better injury models "to better understand what's going on in IEDs and different blasts and blunt impact trauma we're seeing downrange." Moreneault also discussed the competition to develop a different or better pad and suspension system for Soldier helmets.
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