{"id":5768,"date":"2015-01-29T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2015-01-29T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T03:00:07","slug":"study-cites-youth-football-for-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/29\/study-cites-youth-football-for-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Cites Youth Football for Issues"},"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>ESPN Outside the Lines<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/profiles\/robert-stern\/\">Robert Stern<\/a>, PhD, neurology, neurosurgery, CTE Center; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/about\/leadership\/robert-cantu-m-d\/\">Robert Cantu<\/a>, MD, neurosurgery<\/h4>\n<p>Former NFL players who played tackle football as young children were more likely to have thinking and memory problems as adults, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.go.com\/pdf\/2015\/0128\/otlBUfootballstudy.pdf\">Boston University study published Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0in a medical journal found.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Expert quote:<\/h3>\n<p>Robert Stern, PhD:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have findings from former NFL players, so it can&#8217;t be generalizable to the rest of the football-playing public,&#8221; Stern said. &#8220;But it does suggest something that I think makes logical sense. The logic is you shouldn&#8217;t hurt your brain over and over and over again as a child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Cantu, MD:<\/p>\n<p>Cantu, who is a senior medical adviser to the NFL, said that the new study&#8217;s findings buttress his recommendation about playing flag football instead of youth tackle football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To allow your child to be subjecting themselves to repetitive head injury at a very early age when they could be doing the sport a different way and minimizing their chances [of brain injury], to me, is just insane,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s wrong. We should not be allowing this to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tom Brady didn&#8217;t play football until high school. He picked up the game pretty quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espn\/otl\/story\/_\/id\/12243012\/ex-nfl-players-played-tackle-football-youth-more-likely-thinking-memory-problems\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN Outside the Lines Robert Stern, PhD, neurology, neurosurgery, CTE Center; Robert Cantu, MD, neurosurgery Former NFL players who played tackle football as young children were more likely to have thinking and memory problems as adults, a\u00a0Boston University study published Wednesday\u00a0in a medical journal found. &nbsp; Expert quote: Robert Stern, PhD: &#8220;We have findings from [&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":[133,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768"}],"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=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}