NFL to fund study on link between concussion, brain damage

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

LONDON (AP) — The National Football League said Saturday it will help fund new research on the suspected link between sports-related concussions and long-term brain degeneration.

The agreement with the London-based International Concussion and Head Injury Research Foundation will focus on retired jockeys, who suffer far greater rates of brain trauma than even football players. The agreement came during daylong talks convened by the NFL in London involving representatives of 15 sports leagues, including the National Hockey League and World Rugby. The panel discussed a range of initiatives to identify, treat and prevent concussions.

Michael Turner, medical director of the Concussion Foundation, said the research starting in January would investigate the suspected link between concussions and the onset of an incurable brain degenerative disease called CTE, short for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which can be definitively diagnosed only after death.

"Collaboration with the NFL will significantly accelerate the research we are doing with retired jockeys and help establish if there is any independent evidence that concussion has a long-term impact on health," Turner said.

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[brooklynite]

1. ...to be followed by a study of why the sun comes up every morning...

[uawchild]

11. I know, really n/t

[SusanCalvin]

2. I trust this about as much as I trust

This.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/restricted/18504

(Not available online for a while, but you get the idea from the headline. And please consider subscribing to a great magazine.)

[rurallib]

3. about like the oil companies sponsoring climate change studies

anybody want to hazard a guess on the outcome?

[Frank Cannon]

8. Or tobacco companies and smoking studies.

This is an old game they're playing. And there's a movie coming out with Will Smith as the doctor who discovered the brain damage in NFL players, so this will probably be the first and last time we ever hear about this.

[MADem]

4. Maybe now they'll stop pre-empting JEOPARDY! for fricken football......

[BlueJazz]

6. I'm not too happy about that either. (and I sometimes watch football)

[uppityperson]

5. Good, TBI affects a lot of people.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. Next up: The mafia will fund a study on gambling addiction.

[Sunlei]

9. only retired jockeys? come on now NFL, add 200 retired football players to the research group!!

and a couple hundred current high school, college and national football players.

All it takes is a MRI for each of them and some experts to read the MRIs.

[SusanCalvin]

10. There you go. And it won't happen. nt