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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 632430" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am glad that the schools are taking this seriously. None of my kids played sports in school. jess would have played soccer but her body just would NOT cooperate. Now I am not so sad about that as I was. I would not have forbidden it, but I would have said, and advocated for team-wide, no headers. Those are just a disaster in slow motion, in my opinion. Having had to have 2 operations on my neck, I was super careful about ANY neck/head injury even before seeing this or any of this info being made public.</p><p></p><p>It is actually the kids in the youth leagues and intra-mural leagues that I think are at the most risk. We have seen some changes in husband's nephew over the last few years that I believe may be due to this. He played every sport he could except soccer, and often they would overlap and he might have 2 or even 3 practices a day to fit it all in. Esp in the summer. Winning was EVERYTHING to his coaches (it just isn't fun unless you win was the rationale they gave) and they had to deal with other health issues like anorexia from wrestling to make weight class when nephew was only 8 yo. </p><p></p><p>He has always been the sweetest guy, and very smart, but in the last year he is showing some memory issues and other signs of problems. Given that he has had more than 3 DIAGNOSED concussions and that he didn't tell anyone until at least the end of the game or even late that night that he had a problem, I can only imagine that this may be a big issue in his life.</p><p></p><p>At young ages, the coaches are parents and parents just are not trained about all of this. Heck, we had soccer coaches who told kids to go stand under trees during lightning if the ref or a parent objected to practicing during storms with lightning. Took the league making a big stink to get most of the coaches to agree that kids should not practice during lightning - which is just idiotic, in my opinion. The risk of concussion wasn't on anyone's radar then, and I don't know if it would be now. We had coaches calling the girls names like sissy if they didn't want to play on sprained ankles or messed up knees, I cannot imagine them being okay with a kid not playing because they were dizzy or had a headache. It will take a LOT for this to change in my area. I hope that it does change though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 632430, member: 1233"] I am glad that the schools are taking this seriously. None of my kids played sports in school. jess would have played soccer but her body just would NOT cooperate. Now I am not so sad about that as I was. I would not have forbidden it, but I would have said, and advocated for team-wide, no headers. Those are just a disaster in slow motion, in my opinion. Having had to have 2 operations on my neck, I was super careful about ANY neck/head injury even before seeing this or any of this info being made public. It is actually the kids in the youth leagues and intra-mural leagues that I think are at the most risk. We have seen some changes in husband's nephew over the last few years that I believe may be due to this. He played every sport he could except soccer, and often they would overlap and he might have 2 or even 3 practices a day to fit it all in. Esp in the summer. Winning was EVERYTHING to his coaches (it just isn't fun unless you win was the rationale they gave) and they had to deal with other health issues like anorexia from wrestling to make weight class when nephew was only 8 yo. He has always been the sweetest guy, and very smart, but in the last year he is showing some memory issues and other signs of problems. Given that he has had more than 3 DIAGNOSED concussions and that he didn't tell anyone until at least the end of the game or even late that night that he had a problem, I can only imagine that this may be a big issue in his life. At young ages, the coaches are parents and parents just are not trained about all of this. Heck, we had soccer coaches who told kids to go stand under trees during lightning if the ref or a parent objected to practicing during storms with lightning. Took the league making a big stink to get most of the coaches to agree that kids should not practice during lightning - which is just idiotic, in my opinion. The risk of concussion wasn't on anyone's radar then, and I don't know if it would be now. We had coaches calling the girls names like sissy if they didn't want to play on sprained ankles or messed up knees, I cannot imagine them being okay with a kid not playing because they were dizzy or had a headache. It will take a LOT for this to change in my area. I hope that it does change though. [/QUOTE]
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