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NFL-Affiliated Doctor Says Football Is Safer Than Riding A Bike

By on March 21, 2015

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/18/nfl-doctor-youth-football-bike_n_6895584.htmlIn my opinion, we need more doctors like this one explaining the real-life safety concerns of children playing tackle football.  The media loves to take the rare instances and make the public believe that instance is the norm.

This is little kid football, not the pros!  This is a must read post you should share with anyone who is skeptical.

He even deemed the sport safer than riding a bike. From the interview: There are more injuries to kids from falling off bikes, scooters, falling in playgrounds than there are in youth football. Yes, we have to do better all the time to make it safer, but I think if a kid is physically able to do it and wants to do it, our job is to continue to make it safer.
Parents, he said, shouldn’t stop their football-loving kids from getting on the field….

NFL-affiliated doctor and Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery Joseph Maroon said during an interview on the NFL Network Tuesday that all this yelling and screaming about the dangers of football — and in particular, youth football — has gone too far. He even deemed the sport safer than riding a bike.

There are more injuries to kids from falling off bikes, scooters, falling in playgrounds than there are in youth football. Again, it’s never been safer. Can we improve? Yes, we have to do better all the time to make it safer, but I think if a kid is physically able to do it and wants to do it, our job is to continue to make it safer. But it’s much more dangerous riding a bike or a skateboard than playing youth football.

“I really believe that [football has] never been safer,” Maroon said Tuesday. “The rules changes, the safer tackling techniques, the medical management of concussions [are] so much better than [they ever have] been in the history of the sport.” See more…

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