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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m very against football.  But I’d like similar studies does for other youth sports like soccer and hockey.  I’m sure it’s not as bad as football but I’d like to know how bad it is.[/quote]

[b]Soccer is almost as bad as football when it comes to head injuries,  concussions, CTE among advanced players.[/b]   Girls soccer in high school has a similar rate of head injuries to boys football in high school.

Any contact sport has a risk of head injuries, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, football.  [/quote]

That just simply isn't true, or even close and there is no evidence to support that claim.[/quote]

"A new study, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that girls who play high school soccer are at nearly the same risk for traumatic brain injuries as boys who play high school football.  In fact, concussion rates were higher among girls than boys in every high school sport."

[url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2019/11/07/the-concussion-gender-gap-why-girls-suffer-more-head-injuries/?sh=248967786937[/url]

It's almost like any sport where the athletes are sprinting into a shared space will result in head injuries.

It's not about if football is dangerous; it is.  It's about making sure we apply the same lens to the other sports.

If you don't let your son play tackle football, but let your daughter play soccer, you're making an emotional decision, not a logical fact-based one[/quote]

Once again, it's about subconcussive forces, not just concussions.

A football player gets hundreds or thousands of hits per week for years in end while a soccer player doesn't..

Try to keep up:

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/22/football-cte-brain-injury-concussions-study

Go back and read Aaron Hernandez's autopsy findings. His brain was so bad it shocked the pathologist who analyzed his brain.  He is believed to have way more concussions and brain traumas than his health records would indicate.  For all we know, concussions and brain traumas are being vastly underreported by football players.

Having your bell rung alone is not predictive of CTE. It's the sum total of collisions.  [/quote]

Yes, I agree.

And FYI:  those lower-intensity collisions happen frequently in the other sports mentioned.  Hell, my daughter probably ends up on the ground more often in her soccer practice than in my son does in his football practice.

And AGAIN, I'm not saying football is as safe as the other sports; it's not.  But that its been singled out as the "dangerous" sport, when the other sports also pose a brain injury risk.  If you're ruling out football, you should be limiting your kids to sports where the competitors do not physically share a space.[/quote]

You are willfully in denial. I can guarantee 10000% that your daughter encounters nowhere near the same number of collisions as many positions do in football, like running back or linemen.  Linemen are the worst, because every single play encounter collisions multiple times.  You don't have to end up on your back, it's simply the act of bodies hitting each other every single play on football that makes it much more dangerous because you are accumulating a much higher total g forces for the brain.  Linemen have 30x greater risk for developing CTE than most other positions. Linemen are almost never routinely knocked out.  Running backs are also very bad with 10x higher risk for CTE because they have to crash into people and get tackled every time they touch the ball.  Read the study linked.

It's obvious at this point no amount of explaining will convince you. Cognitive dissonance is your issue though, not everyone else's.  [/quote]

Not just me.  anyone.  you'll never convince anyone by spamming message boards[/quote]

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