Understanding the damage multiple concussions can do to the human brain has come a long way in the past 10 years. High school and other youth sports players are now routinely taken off the field after a brain-jarring hit. College and professional teams are more invested in identifying any possible brain injury on the field at the time of the injury and involving medical specialists in making sure players’ brains have time to recover from an injury before they return to play.

Too many professional athletes, especially professional football players, have suffered memory loss, trouble concentrating, and depression or other psychological problems as a result of multiple concussions over years of play on the field. The tragic stories of athletes diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, mainly after death, have made clear that repeated trauma to the brain can also lead to dementia, Parkinson’s, severe psychiatric problems, and ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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With five seconds left in the football game, lined up in a defensive three-point stance, a Drumheller player went offside and crashed into him. It was his third known concussion. His memory of the next two days is spotty at best, and he would spend two weeks in the dark, missing school and avoiding light. It would take a number of days, and proper recovery, for Barbaro’s brain to heal.

This is the reality of concussions. In the years between 2012-14, more than 17,500 children between the ages of five and 19 reported a concussion, according to the government of Canada. Just over 60 percent of those concussions came from sport, with around 1,030 attributed to football. The benefits of sports have been well documented, but concussions represent an issue for those who play. An issue with no easy answers.  

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One Valley doctor is working to protect our kids for little reported and deadly sports injuries in this segment of KMIR Cares.

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Cover Three protects the brain, and supports repair of the brain after injury, so take Cover Three!