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Message: [QUOTE="bevosu, post: 2031242, member: 46"] [I]David Camarillo and his team at the[URL='http://camlab.stanford.edu/'] Cam Lab [/URL]at Stanford. Camarillo and others have speculated that the most damaging blows are those that cause the head to snap quickly from ear to ear, like the one shown above, or those that cause a violent rotation or twisting of the head through a glancing blow. “The brain’s wiring, essentially, is all running from left to right, not front to back,” Camarillo said, referring to the primary wiring that connects the brain’s hemispheres. “So the direction you are struck can have a very different effect within the brain. In football, the presence of the face mask can make that sort of twisting even more extreme.” These revelations are a powerful indication that football helmets as they are now designed do not protect players from concussions and long-term brain disease like chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E. But Camarillo and others are hopeful that as more data becomes available and as more is learned about the brain’s inner turmoil during hits to the head, helmet design will improve.[/I] [IMG]https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/12/20/concussion/8e95a6029543504a97a03c6805f7cb4846c8ab2f/GiantsLinemen.jpg[/IMG] [I] But scientists also commonly believe that this kind of brain disease is caused not only by these severe concussive hits, but also by the accumulation of more minor blows. Consider the image shown above: It is the sort of line-of-scrimmage battle that happens on almost every play in football and does not seem nearly as bad as the concussive hit sustained by the receiver that we showed you earlier. But data from a single game showed that one college offensive lineman took 62 of these smaller blows to the head.[/I] (From a short recent NY Times article that I've posted that apparently nobody wants to read and/or comment on.) [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/09/sports/football/what-happened-within-this-players-skull-football-concussions.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=2[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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