Football, Dementia, and the Future of Sports

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Football, Dementia, and the Future of Sports

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It’s not like anyone thought head injuries were good for people, but the long term effects of concussions has researchers, coaches, and doctors concerned about the extra risks of some popular sports.
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@paulmulcahy2250 6 жыл бұрын

These kinds of chronic injuries also happen to soldiers and marines, due to the intensive physical training and, particularly in the combat arms fields (infantry, tank crewmen, artillery crewmen, combat engineers, and attack helicopter pilots). I was an airborne infantryman (paratrooper) for most my career. After 16 years, they had to medically retire me due to the cumulative damage I did to my body, and like some athletes, I now have severe osteoarthritis. And I'm not the only soldier who this has happened to.

@noontide1209 6 жыл бұрын

i can only speak from personal experience. i played all kinds of sports when i was growing up. i was bound for college play my senior year. i refrained from playing when i had an MRI done on my spine. i had three bulging disks in my lower back, i was dangerously close to having sciatica. (extremely painful nerve pain) it took a long time to recover from this, and i still dont have a perfectly healthy back after three years. without a doubt, training in college would have left me crippled for the rest of my life. im still doing preventative exercises to keep myself healthy. my personal advice for anyone reading this as an aspiring athlete is to be very careful with your body. pushing your limits as a person is an amazing and rewarding thing to do, but knowing when to let up is equally as important.

@AvenueEmpire 6 жыл бұрын

My advice would be to protect your body while you play. Proper technique can fix many of the health issues with any sport. People also say not to lift weights because it can severely damage your body, however there are athletes who lift their entire life with proper technique. Its the same logic, Football is a contact sport. Learning how to tackle safety, and be tackled and fall down safely is paramount. Now obviously, there are still risks and you cannot eliminate players using bad form or illegal tackles but, there are other methods than simply hanging up the towel and saying im done.

@noontide1209 6 жыл бұрын

youre right. proper form is the ultimate protection against long term injury, but it isnt an option to suddenly perform correctly when an injury becomes as severe as mine was. again, this is my personal experience. others can vary greatly.

@YeeSoest 6 жыл бұрын

So basically "Do sports but only for fun and fitness, not so much that your body gets overused and breaks down from playing too much"

@BTheBlindRef 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for calling out the current misunderstanding that only concussions cause CTE. The latest findings suggest that non-concussive repeated head contact, like that by offensive linemen in football, who are rarely tackled violently but who engage in lesser physical contact every offensive play, also lead to CTE and other long-term brain damage. Given that fact, the fix for the issue in American football is not an easy one without completely changing the nature of the game.

@johnbagel2560 6 жыл бұрын

Can’t have a future in sports if you don’t got a future.

@OakenTome 6 жыл бұрын

Sebastian Elytron Realistic I think.

@johnbagel2560 6 жыл бұрын

Rmmc 1203 too true my brother...

@phishENchimps 6 жыл бұрын

yes. Gang Violence Kills so many of the youth. Thank You.

@phishENchimps 6 жыл бұрын

Awe.. Still doesnt stop Gangs.

@phishENchimps 6 жыл бұрын

If you make it..

@kateysue71 6 жыл бұрын

scishow has that viewer friendly polish that some other science channels don't have

@jason8676 6 жыл бұрын

Mr. Brocoli ???

@MarioUcomics 6 жыл бұрын

Basically what happened to Chris Benoit for doing head dives for most of his pro wrestling career

@jeremysalazar2631 6 жыл бұрын

Mario U The steroids helped with that too

@B3Band 6 жыл бұрын

You misspelled "steroids"

@xxXthekevXxx 6 жыл бұрын

I get asked all the time if I’m related to that guy lol.

@D4rkTooga 6 жыл бұрын

Aaaaare you?

@KK-zw6bo 6 жыл бұрын

It’s just a shame that some people need to go through dementia for us to realise this

@knoxduder 6 жыл бұрын

Tyrese Okeke it’s a shame or society cultures gladiatorial sports and abuse as more important then science and educations, leading children and young men and woman away from academics for mostly hopeless pipe dreams with a world full of long term to permanent injuries in favor of opportunity .

@Vnifit 6 жыл бұрын

Tyrese Okeke Well we don't know somethings wrong until something goes wrong. Now we know, and now we can take steps to prevent in the future.

@Vnifit 6 жыл бұрын

Mike Janzen You are making an immensely broad claim. Different parts of society value different things, and without concrete data there is no real basis to your claims.

@knoxduder 6 жыл бұрын

Vnifit I may be making a broad claim, but I make a substantiated claim. Mostly from first person experience working with multitudes if schools , teachers, parents, and college students on sports scholarships . It doesn’t take much digging to see how much sports are sensationalized in this country as a whole, and how much money is spent on it on public education levels and up. The tax payers ultimately paying the price for players who lose out in the short term .. and a very small percentage of players “go pro”. I am not saying that my statement applies to everywhere and everyone from coast to coast , but I would wager it’s a much higher percentage then not . I hate typing from cellphones .

@XSpImmaLion 6 жыл бұрын

Sheesh, these flesh bags of meat of ours are just too fragile... time to upload the brain to a more resilient shell.

@patrickmccurry1563 6 жыл бұрын

It's theoretically possible if you only replace tiny portions of the brain at a time. Eventually you get a complete computer without ever losing continuity of consciousness.

@theplaylab9336 6 жыл бұрын

XSportSeeker could you imagine the amazing games our proxy bodies could endure?

@sentinelmoonfang 6 жыл бұрын

Patrick McCurry Nex Russ In theory, yes. But it's the Ship of Theseus Paradox. In only a few years, we should be able to create computers powerful enough to run a WBE, but it's impossible to tell if a WBE is conscious. Obviously, as an outside observer, if an AI seems to be a conscious being, we should treat it like one from an ethical standpoint. It's the biology component at work, not the computer component that's most tricky. We don't know what creates consciousness as we know it, and we will only be able to preserve its continuity for sure once we do.

@spudthepug 6 жыл бұрын

Yes please! I wanna be a ghost in a shell!

@onetree2303 6 жыл бұрын

Tyler Harris t

@strifera 6 жыл бұрын

Completely changing the way games are played legitimately seems like a practical solution to me. Ulama no longer involves human sacrifice. Maybe football should lose that element too? There is no safe way to involuntarily tackle someone at speed.

@oblivionpro69 6 жыл бұрын

What is an involuntary tackle?

@strifera 6 жыл бұрын

bob bill, it's when the subject of the tackle is not voluntarily being tackled.

@Jackal_Blitz 6 жыл бұрын

I primarily watch hockey, and I am thoroughly pleased every time I see a player thrown out of a game (and sometimes fined) for running another player face-first into the boards. The NHL has really taken player safety seriously, and I appreciate that.

@Master_Therion 6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like doctors are doing a bang up job. I hope this research makes an impact.

@SeeBlakeSmith 6 жыл бұрын

Master Therion 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@ToyKnives 6 жыл бұрын

Boo

@knoxduder 6 жыл бұрын

phthisicy I hope you’re joking .

@johnbagel2560 6 жыл бұрын

I must say good sir I respect your puns.

@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT 6 жыл бұрын

The slap-dash approach to injury risk still has me concerned, but I am hopeful of research efforts to get a head of the problem.

@BladeRedwind 6 жыл бұрын

If you're an adult and you wanna play football, got for it. You know the risks. My issues have to do with children playing a full-contact sport that encourages them to slam one another onto the ground. Say what you will about soccer, but it's at least not the norm to tackle a player; you don't do it on purpose. Sports will always have a degree of danger to them, sure. But football is just not ok for anyone under 18 with no say-so to play. To me it should be as illegal as dog fighting.

@ArtFreak17 6 жыл бұрын

If anyone is curious about the subject of CTEs, there's this documentary on it called "League of Denial", that might be worth your time. Also, helmets unfortunately only do so much and largely can only prevent stuff like skull fractures and more superficial hemorrhaging injuries (which is important too). Even though it does dampen the impact, the only way it could help with concussions very much is if there was technology that could basically be an internal brain seat belt - but that's just too invasive and fanciful to be of any use at this time. Safer techniques and fostering a culture in sports that cares more about the health/safety of the players do seem to be a promising compromise (enforcing longer recovery times for injuries, giving former players a better safety net for their future healthcare needs, etc.).

@ArtFreak17 6 жыл бұрын

Prowler Cam - I've heard of this movie, but I've never seen it yet. So, I'm going to put it on my To Watch list (I'm curious how it would portray the same events/lives involved too.) Thanks for bringing that up!

@sorenkair 6 жыл бұрын

I recommend Gordon Korman's "Pop", a young adults novel about the friendship between a high school player and a (fictional) legendary retiree with untreated near late-stage alzheimers.

@SAMURIADI 6 жыл бұрын

gee. its like if you hit your head against a wall thousands of times it ruines your health

@hustlehank6855 6 жыл бұрын

My father never played football with me, perhaps thats why I turned to a life of crime

@Danny-li6ht 6 жыл бұрын

lol

@SuprSi 6 жыл бұрын

On the up side you probably don't have a CTE :D

@TheReZisTLust 6 жыл бұрын

Hustle Hank what the hell is a dad

@MegaAstroFan18 6 жыл бұрын

I like how the NFL's first response to potential dangers to their players was denial, rather than caution. Kind of puts their priorities into perspective.

@TheTravelerww 6 жыл бұрын

I have yet to get a head injury form my prefered sport: archery

@Master_Therion 6 жыл бұрын

I used to be an archer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee. I am so sorry. Sometimes I can't help myself.

6 жыл бұрын

I am equally terrible. I laughed. I am ashamed.

@JadenTapscott 6 жыл бұрын

+Master Therion God, that meme is *still funny.*

@ceilingfan7505 6 жыл бұрын

That's cause archery isn't a sport. There is no athletic prowess involved.

@TheTravelerww 6 жыл бұрын

It is a sport. It involves the same back muscles as rowing along with position aim. It also features in the Olympics.

@minnago 6 жыл бұрын

Why exactly can't people stop playing american football?

@minnago 6 жыл бұрын

Prowler Cam Yea... 😑

@CapitalMort 6 жыл бұрын

Because they enjoy it. People destroy themselves slowly in many ways.

@AgentBecker6980 6 жыл бұрын

I lost a college scholarship due to concussions and it's honestly scary to think about what high happen health wise later in life

@SpicyButterflyWings 6 жыл бұрын

And this is why the only sport I ever took part in was marching band.

@maxwell4546 6 жыл бұрын

It's always a stupid thing to hurt yourself so much during a sport to the point of permanent damage. Guess that's what money does...

@hvorforemil1496 6 жыл бұрын

so if I bang my head against a wall I die faster. good to know

@danielchoi4490 6 жыл бұрын

Freddy Krueger No, any repetitive head injury can... Banging your head on the wall is an injury. You don't need to run.

@deadfish3789 6 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't recommend it. It'll likely be a relatively unpleasant death

@Vassilinia 6 жыл бұрын

I hope for a future where the comments section has at least 10 different Hanks at any point in time. 😂😂

@yonatanbeer3475 6 жыл бұрын

Vassilinia plot twist: all the Hanks are controlled by the real Hank

@maxxhart9322 6 жыл бұрын

I feel like we need studies on whether teaching safety in contact sports (like safe tackling) at a young age does or does not reduce risk of concussions later on. Because while I understand that a concussion will probably be worse for a five year old than someone whose brain is more developed, I feel like there is less risk in being inexperienced when the average weight of players is 50 pounds as opposed to when it’s 250 pounds. I personally feel like this makes sense, which is why I still support starting kids in contact sports early providing it’s not too competitive, but real research needs to be done about it

@joshMorgan111 6 жыл бұрын

This is great before I have football practice

@jwhalstrom75 6 жыл бұрын

Wow. Had no idea how widespread the side affects from intense sports were.

@rubymimosa 6 жыл бұрын

My son is now 24yrs, thankfully we listened when he said after a year that (American) football wasn’t for him when he was a child. Now parents and coaches need to take doctor’s research more seriously.

@ksub91 6 жыл бұрын

I'm a fan of figure skating, but when I watch it I'm very concerned about how dangerous it is. No helmets, high speed, a lot of jumps and spins, and a very damn hard ice. Also, it's not too uncommon for skaters to injury each other in practice and warm-up, because there are a lot of skaters on ice at the same time (oh my, that time Hanyu Yuzuru and Yan Han skated right into each other, and Yuzuru hurt his head really bad but still proceeded with the contest, I wonder if the got a concussion, wouldn't surprise me if he continued with the contest despite a concussion), and in pair skating and ice dance. In ice dance they "only" lift each other, but in pair skating they also throw each other in the air. There have been a lot of concussions over time, and also the skaters make more and more dangerous elements on the ice, because they invent more and more dangerous elements. For example, some years ago triple jumps, i.e three spins in the air, were the most difficult jumps (they still are for the ladies), nowadays the men have come to the level of doing quadruple jumps, i.e. four spins in the air, because they always challenge themselves and the other skaters as much as they can. For a quadruple jump they need more speed than for a triple. I hope they start to wear some kind of helmets soon, because the sport is already very dangerous, and it becomes more dangerous over time because of new and more difficult elements.

@Twosocks42 6 жыл бұрын

Honestly, based on the research I read during Cog Psych, the best way to protect people is going to make a concussion a season ending injury. People recover better from a concussion so long as they don't have a second occurrence within six months. Make it a season ender and the person is much less likely to end up with irreparable damage.

@fuze59 6 жыл бұрын

Her delivery has really improved.

@jarencascino7604 6 жыл бұрын

Makes me real nervous since played football for a bit and got my bell rung a bit

@jambott5520 6 жыл бұрын

Rugby also has thus problem, but the sport itself has sort of changed to help mitigate it, as you have scrum caps, so when all the fat people are huddling you have a bit more padding in case a knee flies your way or anything like that, and with tackling you aim with your shoulder, and avoid any contact with your head. Plus concussions are taken very seriously.

@wu-wisdom2064 6 жыл бұрын

Jambott yep but not as prevalent, rugby players are taught proper form tackling where NFL players usually lead with their head.

@softballslugger7 6 жыл бұрын

Also, I whole heartedly believe that the less padding worn by rugby players actually helps keep them safer. You’re taught proper mechanics in order to reduce injury and because you don’t have as much padding, you don’t tackle quite as hard. I think all the padding football players wear has actually cause more injuries over the years because more padding = harder hits = more, and more serious, injuries.

@jimmybrown5062 6 жыл бұрын

bcimino007 too right mate, football players need too take off all the gear and learn proper tackling technique

@freekzero 6 жыл бұрын

>but nobody wants people hurting themselves Oh how I wish this were true...

@EstebanRV 6 жыл бұрын

Some of these issues are also very common among musicians, and those are even less talked about. Repetetive stress injuries are commonplace among professional musicians, and just as in high stakes sports the pressure to "be the best" can lead not only to developing a disorder, but to not talk about it.

@MerkhVision 2 жыл бұрын

What kind of injuries can musicians get? I’ve never heard of this. The only thing that comes to mind is calloused fingers for guitar players lol

@EstebanRV 2 жыл бұрын

@@MerkhVision there's loads of em, not counting the whole bunch of mental/emotional issues,. Many people get tendonitis in different places, such as fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders, and so on, mainly from repetitive stress injuries. There are also postural dangers, for example many classical guitarist are used to playing with one leg higher tha the other, This causes the hips to be imbalanced and thus puts more pressure on one side of the spine, which can cause injury. Many brass players and some woodwind players also develop injuries in their lips, teeth and gums. A lot of these things can be avoided with good posture, good techinque, proper rests and general fitness, but unless students are aware of all of this (which a lot of times does not happen), and even if they are, the usual practice and mentality of perfection is really conducive to developing issues at some point or another.

@MakeMeThinkAgain 6 жыл бұрын

What I learned playing American football as a kid was that I wouldn't get hurt if I hit the other person harder than he hit me. Not sure about the physics of that, but it seemed to be true.

@nettlescats3796 6 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine got tendonitis in her wrists when she was only 11. She was pushed into gymnastics by her showoff of a mother. But my friend hated it.

@F.udemin 6 жыл бұрын

Football is the only reason I ever even had a chance to get a degree... that being said I'd never let my son play.

@magister343 6 жыл бұрын

"Sports and great" and "nobody wants people hurting themselves" are both false statements.

@jaimie00 6 жыл бұрын

I really love these longer videos that go more in-depth!

@AZOffRoadster 6 жыл бұрын

Was never into gladiator sports. If you're into these sports, just assume brain damage will occur.

@bordenfleetwood5773 6 жыл бұрын

As important as it is to keep advancing our knowledge of the consequences of these injuries, we need to keep in mind the goal of sports, especially for children: Exercise. Any and all physical activity involves SOME risk of injury. Low-violence sports like running are extremely repetitive, while non-repetitive sports involve higher momentary stresses or high-speed impacts. Risk of injury is always possible. But without taking these risks (ie, not being active) increases risk of all manner of sedentary diseases, including some things that scientists are just starting to identify. Make choices intelligently, but know that you're taking lots of risks, no matter what you choose.

@pirate1234567891 6 жыл бұрын

Can't get a sports injury if you never leave the house.

@riccfire 6 жыл бұрын

Wow! Excellent video! What about long-term issues regarding lifting weights or using weight machines at the gym?

@zombieblood1675 6 жыл бұрын

The dead dont have these problems

@ii5801 6 жыл бұрын

When I play nobody comes even close to me.

@xxXthekevXxx 6 жыл бұрын

How many Hanks are there o.o

@ii5801 6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Benoit 5

@cicad2007 6 жыл бұрын

You smell that bad???

@sechran 6 жыл бұрын

"Nobody wants people hurting themselves" -- Except the executive producers of America's Funniest Home Videos.

@ajd2393 6 жыл бұрын

Wow these guys are getting huge. New channel sounds very interesting.

@osmium6832 6 жыл бұрын

"Nobody wants people hurting themselves." Tell that to the NASCAR fans who only show up for the crashes. Or most MMA / boxing fans.

@gigglysamentz2021 6 жыл бұрын

I like the slower pace for the conclusion! OuO Caught MY attentionn ^^

@sentinelmoonfang 6 жыл бұрын

This isn't entirely accurate. Last year doctors developed a process that allowed them to diagnose CTE in a living victim for the first time. I believe they were able to create a tracer that could bind to tau proteins, making them visible on an MRI.

@vickymc9695 6 жыл бұрын

Removing the prophylactic bracing and helmets looks like a good way of reducing injury.

@silentpro54 6 жыл бұрын

There's a good Vox video on why female ice hockey actually has the highest rate of concussion of any sport I don't know how that would translate to CTE for them personally but still interesting to know.

@poky888nuju 6 жыл бұрын

The ironic thing is that the push for improved safety equipment leads to people playing harder (thus more injury). Also, concussion can increase the risk of stoke up to 10 years after injury.

@IamTheHolypumpkin 6 жыл бұрын

I think my only merchandise is the Sci Show T-shirt. But I just bought it because I loved the phrase Knowledge is Power.

@freespuddy 6 жыл бұрын

For many years, I've been saying those people that go for intense sports are going to be sorry when they get older.

@graydorian9212 6 жыл бұрын

That's interesting. This would probably partially explain and give credit to the "dumb jock" stereotype in media. A good percentage of athletes have brain damage to some degree.

@jeremysalazar2631 6 жыл бұрын

Damn as an amateur boxer who's been boxing for 5 years, i feel scared for my brain 😓 ive been dropped 2 times. And i have been jumped by 3 guys that gave me a concussion. We'll see whats up in my 30s and 40s if i make it there 🙈

@sacr3 6 жыл бұрын

I attribute a lot of these accidents to basically doing too much too soon. Our bodies are made to grow and adapt, if you start slow and work your way up your muscles, bones, etc will strengthen and get stronger to handle the newer and newer loads. You still can't prevent injuries 100%, but you can prepare your body for the strains and stress and make it more immune to simple twisted ankles due to having more muscle strength to offset that instability. Throwing these little tiny kids into situations where they're expected to do a backflip within the first week? Unless that kid was athletic their odds of getting injured are high. As for the concussions, best bet is to just work on developing better and better technologies for diagnosing and treating the injuries. Long term this will help everyone from the kid who tripped to the guy who crashed his car.

@breck1637 6 жыл бұрын

sacr3 You're completely right, and I think this is what you were saying but the same logic unfortunately doesn't apply to head injuries.

@sacr3 6 жыл бұрын

Yea thats why the last bit there I said, as for concussions (head injuries) all we have is technology to try and recover from the damage done, we don't have the technology to stop a brain from sloshing around.

@MerkhVision 2 жыл бұрын

But… childhood sports training IS gradual, no one expects a first time child gymnast to do a backflip right away or anything like that lol

@hsl8251 6 жыл бұрын

This was just a really good episode today, keep up the great work!

@Brown95P 6 жыл бұрын

inb4 we all play badminton in the future

@hinro 6 жыл бұрын

you ever been knocked in the head with a shuttlecock before? those little bastards hurt.

@Brown95P 6 жыл бұрын

still a better thing to be hit on the head with than literally any other sports ball ever

@greypaladin4560 6 жыл бұрын

I recommend extra large helmets covered with cushions inside and out...and I want to see football players running around looking like Dark Helmet. It'd be a great improvement.

@animistchannel2983 6 жыл бұрын

If games like american football were invented today, they would never be allowed in schools. The fact that they are still in schools just shows the extent to which people DON'T love their children. I practiced and taught martial arts for decades, and we consistently had more students injured and missing class due to "sports" injuries than from practicing actual combat arts.

@noneofyourbusiness9217 6 жыл бұрын

Correction. Concussion symptoms can last longer than a month. Post-concussion syndrome can last years. Otherwise solid info!

@route2070 6 жыл бұрын

There are safer techniques, not enough coaches teach them. That includes in the NFL. A player was carted off the field last year after delivering a hit where his head is down. That is something you should learn not to do day 1 in hitting drills.

@gab.lab.martins 6 жыл бұрын

"When I say football, I actually mean handegg, since that's what the 'sport' should be called."

@celtgunn9775 6 жыл бұрын

I have osteoarthritis. But I think mine is from several things. Car accidents, training horses, having children. (4 of them) Just recently had to have 2 bone spurs removed from inside my hip socket. The head of the femur & the socket. And then a 3 disc fusion in my back. 🙄 Can y'all do a video on fusions in backs? That would be fascinating! 😄

@AniBAretz 4 жыл бұрын

We need to research percussive brain injuries, i.e., concussions caused by soundwaves, whether audible or not. It may be that loud stadiums full of fans yelling at full voice, with those voices echoing around, are a significant contribution to athletes with chronic traumatic brain injury.

@tomtomed1 6 жыл бұрын

Why do we go "ahh" after that first sip of tea in the morning

@fermitupoupon1754 6 жыл бұрын

Tbh football can be a non-contact sport without changing the game too much. For rugby and it's derivatives that might be more difficult. Though in my opinion the more padding a player has the more likely they are to act roughly. As the risk of hurting yourself in a tackle is much smaller. It's like comparing boxing to some semi-contact forms of karate. In those forms of karate strikes to the head aren't legal and you aren't wearing gloves. So if you hit someone it'll hurt your hand as much as it hurts your opponent. Whereas in boxing the big, heavy, padded gloves provide so much protection for the hands that you barely feel the blow you're dealing to your opponent. This makes it much easier to hit harder. Add to that the fact that in boxing the head is pretty much the main target, and you know the sport is just asking for problems.

@ebenezer659 6 жыл бұрын

Greetings all! I was hoping someone could help me. I played football for nearly a decade (gradeschool-highschool) and ended up with several concussions as a result. Several years have gone by, and I can still feel the effect of this. Does anyone know where I could volunteer in these studies so that I can participate and contribute to society.

@lyn_shallash 6 жыл бұрын

Calling football soccer is like not using the metric system

@infomaniaco6181 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting to know before starting a career in sport

@redhairdavid 6 жыл бұрын

last i heard, the nfl was saying that with the diminishing amount of children playing football at all, and the drop in highschool and collage football players, the nfl could be gone in the next 10 years. not enough players to fill the ranks.

@markschultz2897 6 жыл бұрын

We should spread out more Football matches in the year so that players can let their injuries cure.

@Valdagast 6 жыл бұрын

What we need is a genetically engineered football player-woodpecker hybrid.

@nabeelkhan7506 6 жыл бұрын

The thing I learned: you can't open someone's head while they are alive

@kaitlinrosholm6378 6 жыл бұрын

Please give credit where credit is due! The name of the doctor who discovered CTE is Dr. Bennett Omalu.

@HKittenm 6 жыл бұрын

What's funny is another injury named for how its caused:knitter's wrist.

@jer103 6 жыл бұрын

Has anyone else played both football and soccer? I played 4 years of football, and 22 years of soccer. I jammed my neck playing football that I was out for 3 weeks, and needed to see a chiropractor. In football you wear a 10 pound helmet on your head, and you have pads all over your body. The helmet cuts your field of vision, and the pads limit your mobility. In my opinion football is a way more dangerous sport. I've only been seriously hurt playing soccer once, when someone kicked me directly in the shin, on accident.

@user-fc1gq5xd9e 10 ай бұрын

Woodpecker birds seem to be immune to concussion due to the structure of their skulls and brains. Although they bang their bills ,and successively their skulls, their brains are insulated by a very deep resevoir of fluid to protect them in their need to hammer. Other birds and people don't have this. So if ones' brain can't take the trauma of the sport it's best to steer clear. Human beings weren't designed for rough head contact no matter how strong the body.

@B3Band 6 жыл бұрын

0:15 #4 knows what's up

@amandam8623 6 жыл бұрын

I keep having leg and hip issues because I ride horses a lot and don't do anything else that would help stretch and what not. Oops

@BrotherWoody1 6 жыл бұрын

I didn't understand why cheerleaders get so many concussions.

@tawon1984 6 жыл бұрын

If we had Vibranium Football helmets we'd be A OKAY 👌

@lockhrt999 6 жыл бұрын

Problem isn't helmets. Vibranium will increase the chance of getting CTE.

@poky888nuju 6 жыл бұрын

The cause for concussion is still debated. The most likely cause is sudden angular acceleration

@loganmueller4836 6 жыл бұрын

Shut up.

@MrSafer 6 жыл бұрын

that movie was MEDIOCRE at best. highly overrated.

@mantis2048 6 жыл бұрын

Helmets can't prevent your brain from moving inside your skull, which is the cause of CTE

@patriciaborron269 6 жыл бұрын

Why did boxing slip by without mention? The goal of the sport is to inflict enough head injury to knock your opponent unconscious.

@iblard 6 жыл бұрын

It's time for a good game of chess.

@rayhs1984 6 жыл бұрын

Check out Chris Nowinski if you want to know any updates that happen. He is a former pro wrestler who quit due to multiple concussions and is a major figure in the science of CTE. He got a PHD from Harvard in the field and helps get research funded.

@musclehank210 6 жыл бұрын

A real man calls it handegg.

@newinhuman 6 жыл бұрын

this has been on the agenda for a looooong time. Unfortunately we do enjoy ppl hurting themselves. The UFC had a long wait to make it to PPV. Lets be honest about it and call it what it is, human sacrifice.

@lasarousi 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for acknowledging that American football is NOT just football anywhere but the States, and only called it just football once for the murican audience at the beginning.

@Ericismuybueno 6 жыл бұрын

I played football for most of my adolescence. Luckily, I never had a concussion or any other serious injury. I know when I have kids I will let them play any sort except football. It's not worth the risk.

@B2Hives 6 жыл бұрын

Any studies on CTE Tau proteins in Politicians ?

@dynomar11 2 жыл бұрын

The hardest one I've read about it Chris Benoit killing his wife, 7 year old kid, and himself. He had cte to the point that his brain resembled an 85 year old brain.

@kabur88 6 жыл бұрын

I always wonder why American football has so many problems, but not with rugby.

@CrankyPantss 6 жыл бұрын

Our body was not set up for all of the stresses put on it during any sport. The repetitive micro damage has to add up.

@klutterkicker 6 жыл бұрын

I wonder if research in development for Alzheimer's can also be applied to treating or preventing CTE.

@patrickmccurry1563 6 жыл бұрын

Sad just how much massive evidence it took to prove that getting hit in the head as a career is bad.

@teresaellis7062 5 жыл бұрын

Ouch. Two of my sisters and an older friend of mine all have had stress fractures or tendonitis from running. I think I will stick to brisk walking and always wear a helmet when biking. I want to live to a ripe old age with as much mobility and brain function my genes allow.