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Bigger than the NFL-concussion headache
If the vision of Brian Westbrook is not too diffuse, and the fog that surrounds his conscience too dense, shock corridor Eagles can thank Joseph Mason Reeves.
Reeves also was a football player, a genre noted for its athletic tendency to both headstrong and the weakness of the head. His colleagues called him "The Bull", but often was too stunned to hear them.
A deal in 1893 less than the Navy team, Reeves was unpleasant duty plow head flying wedges opposing offenses with a deadly ran – literally, sometimes – Efficiency.
With hindsight, "upside down", was probably an unwise strategy, taking into account that football still heads as Reeves were not helmeted. In what was the infancy of the sport, the players really believed they could protect their heads simply grow long hair.
Few courts Hair was put into the season. Many have concussions.
Reeves, who as Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, must have had thin hair. He was knocked out so often that at the end of the season of 1893 a doctor warned the Naval Academy the next could cause death or "instant insanity."
While deaths were not uncommon in an era of football so brutally violent sport nearly kills itself, madness was something else. The prospect of a walnut naval officer in command of an American battleship, the first of which was then under construction in shipyards in the U.S. Navy, was not something the superintendent of the academy could remitted.
So, while the fourth annual meeting with the Army was next on schedule Marina, Captain Robert L. Phythian convened at age 21 old in their care. "Reeves, good man," said the old man, "I can not in good conscience allow you to play the next game with the Army. "
But Bull Reeves, although not taken into account the risk of persistent head injuries provided the value of aircraft carriers, had the talent of a future officer. The future admiral sought a shoemaker in Annapolis and asked him to create a head-protective moleskin.
The result seemed Attila could have led to a sack party – Conical, as it was comical. Still, the strange-looking device Phythian satisfied. Reeves starred in a 6-4 victory for the Navy and the football helmet, but it was not mandatory for nearly half a century, was born.
In the decades since Reeves retained its status and presumably his sanity, Helmets have been subjected to sustained and substantial changes. Doctors, trainers, engineers, pilots and coaches all have tried to perfect. Straps were added, then the filling. In late 1940, began the switch molded plastic leather. The masks were added before and after damping devices air.
Today is the state of the art helmets are bright, elegant and beautiful as sports cars. They cost hundreds of dollars each one. This is effective marketing devices, with tens of thousands of people each year are not only sells computers, but to collectors and obsessive fans, too.
Yet, as illustrated in the problems Westbrook of Philadelphia, Clinton Portis Washington and at least a dozen other players have suffered this season, injuries head to be a headache for the NFL.
According to estimates by the league itself, there are 120-130 concussions a season – a number of survey recent Associated Press suggests may be very inferior. "Kids today are much larger, much faster than they used to be," said Sam Huff, the Redskins broadcaster and former linebacker. "The game is violent and always will be."
That logic does not help much in a hyper-litigation period. So Commissioner Roger Goodell recently ruled that any player suffers a concussion be allowed to play again. Players are under increasing pressure to sit out the game after his injury.
"Once we removed for the duration of a practice or game, "Goodell memo says that" the player should not be considered for return to football activities until it is completely asymptotic at rest and after exercise, has a normal neurological examination, neuropsychological tests normal, and has been cleared to return both for their team physician (s) and independent neurological consultant. "
The enigma of football faces in this young health-conscious to the very nature of sport: How do I delete the violent impact of a violent impact sport? With better headphones? Tougher penalties? Strict medical policies?
So far, none of these options has done much to mitigate the epidemic. Baseball, if he could simply legislate away its most violent, beanballs. Basketball successful police elbows and mugging in the lane.
Hockey is probably the closest thing to football among the four major sports in their proclivity for his pitches shock head, but the ice does not take place almost on a regular basis.
All he knows the NFL at this early stage of what is becoming, for the league However, an issue increasingly unpleasant, is that something must be done.
In addition to new edict from Goodell, the player of the Advisory Forum, directed by Tony Dungy formed. Its purpose is to obtain information on burning issues of the players in the league and give it to Commissioner Roger Goodell. It has asked the manufacturers of helmets to reach a safer design. What happens after that is anyone's guess. "The players are still a valuable resource in the provision direction and insight into a wide range of programs and policies, "the commissioner said in a statement announcing the formation of the committee. "The experience of Tony 's experience in working with the players makes him an ideal leader."
The commission is almost certain to discover what a recent survey by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research found. The study found that 6.1 percent of the players suffered responding Alzheimer's disease, dementia or a memory disorder from others. That's five times the national average for men their age.
The numbers were even worse for younger students of the NFL. Those between 30 and 49 reported suffering from illnesses at a rate 19 times higher than the average American.
A survey by The Associated Press later than 160 current NFL players found that half had suffered serious head injuries – and many had hidden the fact of equipment.
Much of the blame, of course, can be attributed to the peculiar physics of football. big linebackers, defensive physically gifted and are released as missiles at each other. Helmets, designed to protect, often become dangerous projectiles as players the ram in the back, pelvis and sometimes other bosses.
Less obvious but just as insidious, although more regular linemen head butt in the steel cage battles of the wells.
And the runners and receivers diving extra yards often get kneed in the head – as it did Westbrook – by proponents of avalanche. Not surprisingly, these events may have a repetitive seizure dangerous cumulative effect.
According to a recent article in The New Yorker magazine, the researchers believe that most of these former players has affected neurological disorder called CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), the result of repeated head trauma.
Autopsies found varying degrees of CTE, the magazine said, in the brains of the Steelers Hall of Fame center Mike Webster, who was a lone homeless when he died, Andre Waters, Eagles strong safety that severely depressed, committed suicide with a bullet in the head, and Justin Strzelczyk, a time Steelers lineman who died while driving his car in the opposite direction by highway and hit a truck at 90 miles per hour.
If football players retired after his first severe head injury, experts argue that there were probably fewer problems in the future. But unfortunately, there would be many players left to form a league.
Virtually all NFL players, at some point in his career he has been beaten unconscious during a game or practice. Too many do not reveal the depth of their problem because they fear losing their position. Dungy, for example, told a radio interviewer that he had done just that. And after Westbrook suffered a concussion earlier this season, sat out two games, returned, and it was a shock again.
The New York Times reported that Troy Polamalu Pittsburgh had suffered six documented concussions since high school. The total was three Roethligsberger Steelers QB Ben, who missed a game recently after be eliminated.
How many will end up like former Steelers and Strzelczyk Webster?
"It's not that you just lost cognitive abilities, said Douglas H. Smith, professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Injury and Repair Brian, The Philadelphia Inquirer, "but also increased the chances of having a worse problem in the future. "At this point, the NFL can not think of a worse problem.
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