Let's Get the Head Further Out of the Game
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Optometry and Vision Science
- Vol. 10 (1) , 7-9
- https://doi.org/10.1249/jsr.0b013e318205e063
Abstract
Sports-related brain injuries rapidly are reaching epidemic levels, with an estimated incidence range of 1.6 to 3.8 million in the United States per year (7,17). These values likely underestimate the true incidence because of underreporting by athletes (18), and the limitations of current national iKeywords
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