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The Concussion Debate: Can Playing Contact Sports Cause Brain Damage?

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Concussion in Sport - What's the Point of a Conference?

Ross McIlroy: I've just been at the sixth international conference on concussion. It has quite a raging impact on the World of Sport, although if you only looked at the media, you'd think it's a narrow impact. That was a three-day conference that covered so much ground. But no, we got sucked into this media storm around paper nine - which is where all the controversy exists. The one people want to talk about is does collisions and concussions cause CTE? And it's a shame, because the one we should be talking about is prevention.

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