Contact sports seeing more brain injuries

What we do seem to know about football and head injuries is this: They happen. Other than that? Yeah, lots of burgeoning science and correlation effect and post-life analysis allow us to hypothesize that a violent contact sport like football seems to hurt the ol' melon.

In contact sports like football, injuries are bound to happen. By its very nature, football is a violent collision activity that carries a 100% injury rate — no matter what, if you’ve strapped on a pair of pads at some point in your life, you’ve gotten hurt playing what is now America’s favorite pastime.

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Contact sports seeing more brain injuries

What we do seem to know about football and head injuries is this: They happen. Other than that? Yeah, lots of burgeoning science and correlation effect and post-life analysis allow us to hypothesize that a violent contact sport like football seems to hurt the ol' melon.

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