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Following All the Concussion Stories

17 August 2010
Amen Clinics: Head Trauma / Drug Abuse

Amen Clinics: Head Trauma / Drug Abuse

Our heads are hurting from following the growing coverage on concussions in the mainstream media just as the NFL season kicks off.

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The Effects of Too Many Concussions

10 August 2010

Wow! You’d think that it was the NFL that’s suffering from one too many concussions with as many hits as they’ve been taking on the issue of concussions lately. This past week, another series of news stories have been hitting the wires, covering everything from brain injuries in general to football concussions in particular. This recent run started off with Evan Weiner‘s piece from the New Jersey Newsroom on how football players are discarded in retirement (click HERE to read that earlier post) as well as Alan Schwarz‘s continuing series on the NFL’s history of dodgy mishandling of concussions over the years (click HERE for the last round of recent coverage).

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