12-05-2017, 02:45 AM
Reports coming in that it looks like a spinal chord concussion, a previous player had this and they missed 1 game. I would suggest retirement...
A chief culprit was “spearing,” the tackling technique of lowering the head and hitting an opponent with the crown of the helmet. “Lowering the head even slightly reverses the spine’s normal curvature,” says Dr. Bell. “This results in a straightened spine that can’t properly absorb the force applied in a collision. Fracture of the vertebrae that surround the spinal cord can result, with possible spinal cord injury.”
As spearing’s effects became better understood, the technique was banned from all levels of football in the 1970s, and rates of quadriplegia and less serious spine injuries in football fell substantially. Rates of CCN likely fell as well, although CCN was not formally recognized until the mid-1980s.
A chief culprit was “spearing,” the tackling technique of lowering the head and hitting an opponent with the crown of the helmet. “Lowering the head even slightly reverses the spine’s normal curvature,” says Dr. Bell. “This results in a straightened spine that can’t properly absorb the force applied in a collision. Fracture of the vertebrae that surround the spinal cord can result, with possible spinal cord injury.”
As spearing’s effects became better understood, the technique was banned from all levels of football in the 1970s, and rates of quadriplegia and less serious spine injuries in football fell substantially. Rates of CCN likely fell as well, although CCN was not formally recognized until the mid-1980s.
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