Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was going to ignore this thread as the uninformed unthinking internet post that blankets social media. But it’s so ignorant that against my better judgement I decided to respond.

1. It turns out that many sports and activities damage the brain.

Soccer- https://www.columbiaradiology.org/news/soccer-heading-linked-measurable-decline-brain-function#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20at%20Columbia,over%20a%20two%2Dyear%20period.

Gymnastics - https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-06-07/womens-gymnastics-brings-high-risk-for-concussion

Basketball- https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/basketball-concussions-a-risk-in-contact-sports-not-just-football/

Etc.

2. More to the point - bran injury fears are a distraction from the real health problems confronting children which are inactivity, obesity, and diabetes.

See https://mottpoll.org/reports-surveys/top-10-child-health-concerns-exercise-obesity-smoking-lead-list

3. The thing I hate most about post like this are the people who post them. They’re usually either well meaning people who saw a link and have a flash reaction which they immediately post on a board or they’re a culture warrior who see themselves as a paladin for what is good and right.

To the OP if you’re the former- think before you post. But if you’re the latter take a big step back and f**k your own face.

You're the personification of Dunning Kruger.

If you had kept up with any of the evidence, it's not just concussions that are the problem. It's the subconcussive forces that occur on almost every play in football that are believed to cause long term injury and CTE.

It may be true that there are similar rates of concussions between football and soccer, but the the incidence of those isn't what matters. There is ahuge difference in the number of collisions they occur while playing those sports even if they don't result in concussions. It's not even debatable a football playing kid wl be getting hit a lot more than a soccer player. They have even found CTE in young people who've done nothing more than play high school football and were never even diagnosed with a concussion in their lives.

This is like a post from some obese, bbq eating, gun toting moron from Texas obsessed with Friday night lights. All you got are weak whataboutisms to justify your terrible parenting decisions to f*** up your kid's brain.

I love how actually citing studies from Jama and Nature (some of the most premiere scientific journals on the planet) is 'uninformed thinking'. It's really hard to tell if you at too many paint chips as a kid or played too much football. If you're worried about childhood obesity and diabetes, they can simply run track or play tennis, lol.

Anonymous wrote:I was going to ignore this thread as the uninformed unthinking internet post that blankets social media. But it’s so ignorant that against my better judgement I decided to respond.

1. It turns out that many sports and activities damage the brain.

Soccer- https://www.columbiaradiology.org/news/soccer-heading-linked-measurable-decline-brain-function#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20at%20Columbia,over%20a%20two%2Dyear%20period.

Gymnastics - https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-06-07/womens-gymnastics-brings-high-risk-for-concussion

Basketball- https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/basketball-concussions-a-risk-in-contact-sports-not-just-football/

Etc.

2. More to the point - bran injury fears are a distraction from the real health problems confronting children which are inactivity, obesity, and diabetes.

See https://mottpoll.org/reports-surveys/top-10-child-health-concerns-exercise-obesity-smoking-lead-list

3. The thing I hate most about post like this are the people who post them. They’re usually either well meaning people who saw a link and have a flash reaction which they immediately post on a board or they’re a culture warrior who see themselves as a paladin for what is good and right.

To the OP if you’re the former- think before you post. But if you’re the latter take a big step back and f**k your own face.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Soccer is almost as bad as football when it comes to head injuries, concussions, CTE among advanced players. 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.

Anonymous wrote:The study showed the effect were remedied post season. The recommendation is for a break after an event (or a season). This shows the brain heals.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:fMRI showed that dead salmon responded to stimulus https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobel-prize-in-neuroscience-the-dead-salmon-study/

Did you even read your own article from almost 12 years ago? It doesn’t say fMRI is bad, it just says that researchers need to be careful about handling the data that comes out of such studies and making sure they nude the correct statistical analysis. The nature paper with the new data from football players was well controlled and analyzed the data just fine.


Not sure what point you’re trying to make…

Anonymous wrote:fMRI showed that dead salmon responded to stimulus https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobel-prize-in-neuroscience-the-dead-salmon-study/

Anonymous wrote:The study showed the effect were remedied post season. The recommendation is for a break after an event (or a season). This shows the brain heals.