Background On The National Football League's Research on Concussion in Professional Football

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In 1994, as the associate team physician and internist for the New York Jets, I was responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of concussions. I had been with the New York Jets since 1987, having trained as an internist and rheumatologist. Although published information existed, most of what I like other team physicians knew about concussions was from on-field anecdotes passed on from other team physicians and athletic trainers who had been treating professional football players for many years. During my years of medical school, internal medicine training (including an extra year as chief medical resident), and fellowship, from 1975 to 1986, I had never received a single lecture on concussions. As I learned later, this was typical of physician training for what was then an often underdiagnosed and littleunderstood clinical condition.

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