Studies are finding that parents of younger children are increasingly concerned about the long-term impacts of playing football.
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Those in the high-impact group saw an increased grey matter volume, which is not normal for that age group. It may sound alarming that football players who receive more hits experience abnormal brain development, but Davenport cautions that researchers still don’t know what the changes mean or if they are long term. She would like to be able to know if it’s possible to draw the line at a certain number of head impacts before a player needs to recover. Similar measures already exist in baseball, for instance. Pitch counts help pitchers avoid rotator cuff injuries.
“There’s not a universal threshold for the number of cigarettes, and if you cross that line then you have cancer. It doesn’t work like that,” he said.found a 17-point decrease in the percentage of parents willing to let their child play contact sports between 2019 and 2017 — football as an institution is not going anywhere. It’s unlikely to be sued or legislated out of existence, at any level.
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