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Did rugby give me dementia at 40?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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How to Reduce Head Impacts

We will have a system whereby we reduce the number of impacts in a career. And you do that by focusing on the training because they do far more training than they do matches. We're going to get much smarter at identifying individuals who are susceptible. The third thing is the science and technology behind reducing the impact of any particular collision. Some very smart plastics can turn from a rubbery fluid material like a diving wetsuit into an absolutely rigid structure in an instant.

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