{"id":5674,"date":"2014-12-24T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2014-12-24T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:00:32","slug":"injury-to-chicago-bears-qb-offers-new-lesson-in-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2014\/12\/24\/injury-to-chicago-bears-qb-offers-new-lesson-in-concussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury to Chicago Bears QB Offers New Lesson in Concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2014\/12\/24\/injury-to-chicago-bears-qb-offers-new-lesson-in-concussions\/cantu-edit-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/01\/Cantu-edit-2.jpg\" alt=\"Cantu edit 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5677\" \/><\/a>NBC News<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/about\/leadership\/robert-cantu-m-d\/\">Robert Cantu<\/a>, MD, neurosurgery<\/h4>\n<p>In\u00a0a 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.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Expert quote:<\/h3>\n<p id=\"ember893\" class=\"ember-view\">&#8220;If you interview the athletes themselves after the season is over, they&#8217;ll say they don&#8217;t report concussions because they don&#8217;t want to disappoint their teammates or coaches, they don&#8217;t want to lose their positions, they don&#8217;t want to be seen as a wimp,&#8221; Cantu says.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember894\" class=\"ember-view\">&#8220;And if you give them a list of concussion symptoms and ask if they&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ember-view\">Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/injury-chicago-bears-qb-offers-new-lesson-concussions-n274126\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News Robert Cantu, MD, neurosurgery In\u00a0a 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. &nbsp; &nbsp; Expert quote: &#8220;If you interview the athletes themselves after the season is over, they&#8217;ll say they don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}