Concussion denial: in mixed marital art (or UFC) fighting like bike helmet debate?

[shootingstar]

The hospital that I work at has been developing a helmet with accelerometers and other sensors that is supposed to help decide how to pull players out of games before they actually reach injury stage, and standards on how long to keep them out, but I can't help but think that the damage is more subtle than we really know and even using this technology will be too little, too late.

I would tend to agree with you Eden, that it is abit too late. AFter all they would only be pulled out of game if the reading was too "high".

Crankin, I know someone at work who told me as a boy, his mother forbade him from playing high school football because one of his classmates died during football practice.

Interestingly after telling some people about the nature of my injury, I hear more stories ...that people were unwilling to disclose from the past OR they didn't understand the seriousness of what happened to them when they got knocked down with their head involved.

Rebecca: MMA as you may know has some origins in kung fu fighting where the priests created these "exercises" / manoeuvres partially for defense as well as for health/exercise reasons. I read a book of an American who was one of the rare non-Chinese allowed to live and learn the art. It really is amazing for the original skill and manoeuvres...which I don't see much some of the original tenets in MMA.

What a lot of people don't realize that even in tai chi (that gentle type of exercise), there are some simple manoeuvres for deflecting your opponent's oncoming fist or how to stand, centre your weight to withstand the push of several people against you.

Roussey needs go back to martial arts origins of meditation and the power of deflecting opponent violence without overly hurting the other person.