Denniz0229 schreef op vrijdag 13 november 2015 @ 08:59:
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je kiest er wel zelf voor, als je namelijk niet kan bedenken dat die klappen op je hoofd slecht zijn dan heb je zo weinig hersens dat het toch niet meer uitmaakt
verder hebben ze bij AF ook een concussion protocol en moet je direct een hele rits onderzoeken ondergaan. verder is de veiligheid op high schools waarschijnlijk wel wat minder, maar wat ik er van mee krijg zijn ze er wel erg scherp op.
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dat ze niet met geld om kunnen gaan betekend toch niet dat ze niet een riant salaris kregen?
en het klopt inderdaad dat er veel failliet gaan omdat ze teveel uitgeven. maar dat doen ze ook zelf.
gelukkig hebben ze wel allemaal een opleiding gehad en kunnen ze dus gewoon ergens anders aan het werk, alhoewel het salaris wat lager zal liggen.
"Maar daar is m'n helm toch voor? Bescherming ofzo ..."

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over helmen gesproken). Denk toch echt niet dat ze ook maar een voorstelling kunnen maken van wat Alzheimer in de praktijk voorstelt
(maar dat kan je van longkanker net zo goed zeggen natuurlijk; in die zin is hetzoiets als kiezen om te gaan roken ja) en zoals gezegd is het pas in de laatste jaren echt uitgebreid onderzocht dat het op zo'n grote schaal gevolgen heeft (met
oude onderzoeken is vrij weinig gedaan). Je hoort wel af en toen van iemand die bewust stopt maar voor de meesten blijft het spelletje toch te leuk en als je al een NFL contract hebt is het nog lastiger om er van weg te lopen ... Maar zo'n Hollywood film zal vast meer impact maken op bepaalde spelers dan een praatje van de player's association of wie dan ook

(al is de kritiek op de film nu al dat ie te soft is gebleven)
Uit het gelinkte artikel:
PELLMAN, LOVELL and their colleagues published their sixth paper in Neurosurgery in December 2004. It examined baseline data on 655 players and results for 95 players who had undergone both baseline testing and postconcussion testing. It concluded that NFL players did not show a decline in brain function after suffering concussions. Further analysis found no ill effects among those who had three or more concussions or who took hits to the head that kept them out for a week or more. The paper didn't explain where the players in the groups came from specifically or why certain players were included and hundreds of others were not. Neither Pellman nor Lovell has provided those details since.
One of the scientists who reviewed the committee's work is equally blunt. "They're basically trying to prepare a defense for when one of these players sues," he says. "They are trying to say that what's done in the NFL is okay because in their studies, it doesn't look like bad things are happening from concussions. But the studies are flawed beyond belief."
Over Pellman, uit een ander artikel:
New questions about NFL doctor (oud team-arts van de Jets; zonder neurlogische achtergrond, maar een reumatoloog

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Pellman was the lead author in nine of the studies. The league concluded repeatedly that no NFL player had suffered brain damage. In 2005, Pellman and two colleagues on the MTBI committee tried unsuccessfully to force the retraction of a peer-reviewed paper asserting that football gave Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame center Mike Webster brain damage. The demand was seen as highly unusual in a scientific journal because such actions are normally reserved for transgressions such as fraud or plagiarism.
The NFL has since reversed course, implementing rule changes that in some cases directly contradict the league's earlier findings. Concussed players are no longer allowed to return in the same game, for example. In 2005, a Pellman-led NFL study concluded "many NFL players can be safely allowed to return to play on the day of injury after sustaining an MTBI."
[Kyle] Brady said Pellman allowed him to return for the next offensive series, still in a daze. Brady acknowledged that he was as eager as Parcells to get back in. "At that point, you're kind of like a slobbering dog," he said.
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"In hindsight, if I had to do it again and knowing what we know now about concussions and brain trauma and stuff like that, the smart thing would have been to probably stay on the sideline," Mawae said.

het wordt mooier:
The truth is that Pellman was a rheumatologist who falsified his credentials. He claimed to have a medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, but according to the New York Times, he actually attended medical school in Guadalajara, Mexico, and had no specialized training in neurology or brain trauma. The researchers whose work he constantly claimed to be inapplicable to football began to refer to him as Mr. Pellman, feeling that he didn't deserve to be called 'Dr.’ I find myself unable to disagree.
His Mexican medical degree - which Peter Keating (see next paragraph) states was apparently required because his grades weren’t good enough to get into a US medical school - is an explanation of the circumstance in short. Simply put, the league (at that time led by Commissioner Paul Tagliabue) put in a shill with zero credentials to head their pet committee, and to make sure that their level of disinformation remained constant. And, that worked for a long time.
http://www.itsalloverfatm.../brain-trauma-and-the-nfl
Wat toepasselijk begint met

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Over time, it’s become obvious that some people still believe that NFL players should always have known their sport involves a high risk of lifelong problems arising from multiple concussions - and they have to know it by now.
After all, they knew about head injuries and boxing back in the 1920s, right? It’s true - such a study was done, and it did show the dangers for boxers. There were more studies in the 1950s and 60s, as well.
There’s just one problem here: the NFL has been telling the players that this was a nonissue for them ever since the league began. And that, my friends, is where the ugly truths begin.