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Fri, Oct 23, 2009 -- 9:00 AM
Football Injuries
Medical researchers have found evidence of
massive brain damage in football players who have died,
and not only among NFL players. The findings have raised
alarms about the cumulative effects of many small
impacts. Should coaches and players at the college and
high school levels change the way they play the game? We
speak to doctors and those closer to the football field
about the pressures to keep getting hit in the head and
the risks of doing so.
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Host: Dave Iverson
Guests:
- Brent Boyd, retired NFL player
- Kurt Bryant, head football coach at Piedmont High School
- Max Bergen, linebacker for the Stanford Cardinal
- Robert Cantu, clinical professor of neurosurgery and co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University Medical Center
- Tony Strickland, associate clinical professor of neurology at the UCLA School of Medicine and director of the Sports Concussion Institute.
