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Lundberg GD, Metzner D. How to Rescue American Football. Cureus. 2016;8(4):e592doi: 10.7759/cureus.592.
Lundberg, G. D., & Metzner, D. (2016). How to Rescue American Football. Cureus, 8(4), e592. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.592
Lundberg, George D, and Metzner, David. "How to Rescue American Football." Cureus vol. 8,4 (2016): e592. doi: https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.592
Lundberg GD, Metzner D. How to Rescue American Football. Cureus. 2016 Apr 28;8(4):e592. doi: 10.7759/cureus.592. PMID: 27284499; PMCID: PMC4889450.
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Cureus. 2016 Apr 28;8(4):e592. doi: 10.7759/cureus.592.

How to Rescue American Football.

Cureus

George D Lundberg, David Metzner

Affiliations

  1. Chief Medical Officer, CollabRx ; Editor at Large, Medscape from WebMD ; Consulting Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine.
  2. Retired Plastic Surgeon.

PMID: 27284499 PMCID: PMC4889450 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.592

Abstract

Blows to the head damage the brain. American football is a contact/collision sport that produces many injuries, including to the brain. Football has many supporters who cite important redeeming characteristics of the activity. Public attention to the hazards of children and adults playing football has heightend recently due to many new scientific discoveries, not least of which is the frequency with which players are seriously harmed and do not recover. It is now incumbent on all interested parties to invent and implement far better safety practices, equipment, rules, and processes or the sport must cease to exist in its current form. This paper presents several safety proposals for consideration and study.

Keywords: brain damage; chronic traumatic encephalopathy; concussions; contact sports; football; helmets; prevention; punch-drunk; safety rules; tau protein

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