League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth.The article reviews the audiobook "League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth," by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru and read by David H. Lawrence....
The NFL’s handling of concussions has evolved dramatically from the days when players were given smelling salts on the bench and sent back into the game.
We make two main contributions to the literature on work-related injury risk and economic outcomes in the context of American professional football. One is
"Concussions continue to decrease in the preseason as a result of changes to practices, technique, rules and substantial investments in research that have led to the best performing helmets we have ever seen," said Jeff Miller, NFL executive vice president o...
Perhaps the most important factor in reducing the number of brain injuries,however,lies not with the players,the coaches,or the administrators,but with the media and fans.Sports media producers have been used to showing the most aggressive tackles and the most intense plays.NFL broadcasts often ...
NEW YORK -- The NFL will distribute to teams a new poster that warns of the dangers of concussions in much harsher language than before. Traumatic brain injury "may lead to problems with memory and communication, personality changes, as well as depression and the early onset of dementi...
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Upon investigating a three-factor model of depressive symptoms (affective, cognitive, and somatic; Buckley et al., 2001) from the BDI-II, the cognitive factor was the only factor that was significantly related to concussions. In general, NFL players endorsed more symptoms of depression on all ...
2.B.推理判断题.根据第四段And just look at all the cases of violence in the NFL (National Football League) - clearly brain damage isn't the only problem! Football promotes a culture of violence that rewards aggressive behavior. This culture needs to be stopped.可知看看NFL(国家足球联盟)的...
Every year on behalf of the NFL and NFLPA, biomechanical engineers perform extensive testing of helmet models, recreating the realities of on-field play, to collect data and identify which helmet models best reduce the severity of impact. The rate of improvement ...