{"id":5755,"date":"2015-01-29T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2015-01-29T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T17:01:26","slug":"football-childs-play-adult-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/29\/football-childs-play-adult-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Child&#8217;s Play, Adult Peril?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/29\/football-childs-play-adult-peril\/stern\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/01\/stern-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"stern\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5756\" \/><\/a>BU Today<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/profiles\/robert-stern\/\">Robert Stern<\/a>, PhD, neurology, neurosurgery, CTE Center;\u00a0Julie Stamm, PhD candidate<\/h4>\n<p>As the 100 million viewers tuning in to this Sunday\u2019s Super Bowl can attest, Americans adore football. And for many, the love affair begins in childhood:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popwarner.com\/football.htm\">Pop Warner<\/a>\u00a0Tiny-Mites start as young as age five, and many adults retain warm memories and friendships from their youth football days.<\/p>\n<p>But a new study from BU School of Medicine researchers points to a possible increased risk of cognitive impairment from playing youth football.<\/p>\n<h3>Experts&#8217; quotes:<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThis is one study, with limitations,\u201d adds study senior author\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/profiles\/robert-stern\/\">Robert Stern<\/a>, a MED professor of neurology, neurosurgery, and anatomy and neurobiology and director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/\">Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Center<\/a>\u2019s Clinical Core. \u201cBut the findings support the idea that it may not make sense to allow children\u2014at a time when their brain is rapidly developing\u2014to be exposed to repetitive hits to the head. If larger studies confirm this one, we may need to consider safety changes in youth sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSports are important, and we want kids to participate in football,\u201d says Stamm. \u201cBut no eight-year-old should play a sport with his friends and end up with long-term problems. We just want kids to play sports more safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/football-childs-play-adult-peril\/\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Today Robert Stern, PhD, neurology, neurosurgery, CTE Center;\u00a0Julie Stamm, PhD candidate As the 100 million viewers tuning in to this Sunday\u2019s Super Bowl can attest, Americans adore football. And for many, the love affair begins in childhood:\u00a0Pop Warner\u00a0Tiny-Mites start as young as age five, and many adults retain warm memories and friendships from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,126,90],"tags":[135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755"}],"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=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}