Posts Tagged ‘NFL’
By Paul Stone On March 12th, 2013
The National Football League and General Electric Co. announced their partnership to invest in brain injury diagnosis and research earlier this year, but Reuters reports that on Monday they unveiled…
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By Paul Stone On March 7th, 2013
It is no secret that the NFL has a brain injury problem. The issue has been covered by pretty much every major new source, and high profile deaths and suicides…
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By Paul Stone On February 28th, 2013
The NFL’s brain injury problem isn’t going away in the off season, and now that they aren’t consumed by practice, games, and travel, the actual players of the sport are…
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By Paul Stone On February 27th, 2013
While the NFL tries to figure out how to slow down the rise of traumatic brain injuries in the sport and all the bad press that comes with them, it…
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By Paul Stone On February 25th, 2013
Though the ImPACT test has been used by the NFL for the past few years, the NFL hasn’t been able to implement the use of an objective testing method for…
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By Paul Stone On February 19th, 2013
While nowhere near as dire as the NFL, basketball has a head injury problem. It seems every major sport does, but basketball is considered a “noncontact” sport and there has…
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By Paul Stone On February 6th, 2013
With the explosion of news about traumatic brain injury, football, and everything connecting the two in the days leading to the Super Bowl, there has been a lot to get…
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By Paul Stone On February 5th, 2013
Just because it is now officially the off-season for the NFL doesn’t mean the NFL’s woes are going away. The game is played by men who average 250 pounds, with…
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By Paul Stone On February 5th, 2013
While the Super Bowl went without any clear incidents of brain injury, the topic still hung around the day like a dark cloud, which the NFL tried to disarm as…
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By Paul Stone On February 5th, 2013
The Super Bowl is finally over and luckily there were no clear major injuries on the field, but that doesn’t mean the conversation about brain injury in professional football is…
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