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Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® 7/2016

01-07-2016 | Editorial

Editorial: Orthopaedic Surgeons Should Recommend That Children and Young Adults Not Play Tackle Football

Authors: Seth S. Leopold, MD, Matthew B. Dobbs, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 7/2016

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As recently as 2009, members of the National Football League’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee denied that repeated concussions as experienced by some professional football players could result in permanent harm [6]. Earlier this year, that viewpoint changed. The NFL’s senior vice president for health and safety policy recently acknowledged to the US Congress that there “certainly” is a link between football and degenerative brain disorders, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy [2, 3]. It seems clear enough that this is true [5]. …
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Metadata
Title
Editorial: Orthopaedic Surgeons Should Recommend That Children and Young Adults Not Play Tackle Football
Authors
Seth S. Leopold, MD
Matthew B. Dobbs, MD
Publication date
01-07-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 7/2016
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-016-4835-y

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