Today's New York Times has a good article on brain injury and memory loss in a professional hockey player.
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December 18, 2009
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Thanks for sharing Mona. the correlation of recurrent brain injuries with elevated risk for dementia is so intuitive that it's amazing it's taken so long for pro sports to act.
Posted by: Danny George | December 18, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Danny, we saw Invictus last night. I can only imagine the state of rugby players' brains!
Posted by: Mona Johnson | December 19, 2009 at 07:33 AM