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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter plays soccer, and has gotten a concussion because of it. Her neuro says girls soccer is a hotbed of brain injury. At the same time, he supports children involved with athletics, and works to get kids back into their sports as safely as possible. (And he had a serious conversation with both of us about the risks of her continuing to play soccer, and that if she gets another concussion he'll probably say she needs to quit.)

There's risk in it. There's risk in everything. I'm aware that allowing my child to play soccer puts her at increased risk for life long injury. She's aware as well. Soccer is really important to her, and when she's had to take a break it's been incredibly difficult for her.

My knee jerk reaction is that if I had a son who wanted to play football, I wouldn't let him.[b] I'd have him try rugby, or lacrosse, or something else.[/b] But then I look at my daughter with soccer, knowing that girls soccer is also dangerous, and I'm not sure.[/quote]
How did you come to add rugby to that list? You know that rugby is football without the padding, don't you? There's still tackling, just without all that protective gear in the way.[/quote]

Actually it's the protective gear which is a large part of the problem.  No way we would see the brutal hits in FB if there were no pads.  Rugby is a lot more about wrapping and tackling than the huge hits.[/quote]

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