Injury to Chicago Bears QB Offers New Lesson in Concussions

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Robert Cantu, MD, neurosurgery

In a sports era already darkened by brain trauma, a scary and seemingly fresh term surfaced this week following a ferocious blow to Chicago Bears quarterback Jimmy Clausen: the delayed concussion.
 
 

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“If you interview the athletes themselves after the season is over, they’ll say they don’t report concussions because they don’t want to disappoint their teammates or coaches, they don’t want to lose their positions, they don’t want to be seen as a wimp,” Cantu says.

“And if you give them a list of concussion symptoms and ask if they’ve experienced any after a hit, roughly 60 to 70 percent will say yes. So we know that the true number of concussions is quite a bit higher than what was found on the playing field.”

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