Really? What’s going on there? How is it happening so often in women’s?
Well at the risk of derailing the Davidsson thread, im not sure we have all the answers from science yet. Why are some people affected much more than others by concussive events. Is there even a genetic component. Some were hypothesizing this particular case may be related to women’s strength and conditioning of neck muscles compared to men and training in taking a hit.
But as most research lately seems to point out, the issue is “repetitive subconcussive impact.” . It’s not the one big hit. It is the cumulative effect of thousands of little hits
Sending student athletes to college to improve their brains, while knowing that some college sports do such heartbreaking damage to a significant number of brains may soon come to pass if insurance trends continue.
Malcolm Gladwell talking about concussions, provocatively compared college football to dogfighting. Suggesting that although sports teaches all kinds of virtues, there should be a way to teach teamwork and discipline without maiming people. As he suggested: “I mean if we could prove that coal mining taught discipline and teamwork and built school spirit, would we build coal mines on every major college campus?” He also has a pretty unique view on the story of David and Goliath that wont allow me to use that metaphor in the quite same way anymore but I digress too easily.
