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The whole point is to be able to keep playing the game, but make it safer. Tech can help identify the players who should be checked for a concussion and get tho

by JulieM 14y ago

The whole point is to be able to keep playing the game, but make it safer. Tech can help identify the players who should be checked for a concussion and get those players off the field. Players don't report their symptoms so the technology enhances overall awareness of the topic (helping the social problem) while adding an extra set of eyes on the field (tech component).

HarryHirsch 14y ago
Everyone knows what repeated concussions do to a fellow - boxer dementia is age-old - there are regulations against fielding concussed players, yet athletes play on, out of a sense of team spirit, or something. If players and coaches don't go by the information they already have, what will cause them to listen to an electronic box? This does not seem the way forward. Since it's impossible to fight team spirit the rules need changing.
- wtvanhest 14y ago
  If I understand you correctly, you are saying that it is clear when people have concussions and that players simply disregard the advice of coaches and play anyway. 1) "It is not always easy to know if someone has a concussion. You don't have to pass out (lose consciousness) to have a concussion." http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/traumatic-brain-injury-concussion-overview http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/traumatic-brain-injury-concuss... "Since it's impossible to fight team spirit the rules need changing." I agree, by using a G meter, we can make a specific rule that if a player's head experiences a set number of G's, the player can no longer play. That basically simplifies the entire situation because it removes the subjectivity of detecting the concussion. If I had a kid, and they wanted to play football I would want him wearing a g meter to protect my kid.
  - HarryHirsch 14y ago
    At present you have the rules of the game and the helmets and padding, which encourage concussions, and they you put another device on top of that, in order to limit them. That doesn't sound as if it would lead anywhere, and past experience has shown that the evolutionary path the game has taken did nothing to improve safety, Better helmets have made the concussion problem worse. I'm not comfortable with this approach, it would be better to discourage hard hits altogether instead of limiting them with a g-meter.

by JulieM 14y ago

HarryHirsch 14y ago

Everyone knows what repeated concussions do to a fellow - boxer dementia is age-old - there are regulations against fielding concussed players, yet athletes play on, out of a sense of team spirit, or something. If players and coaches don't go by the information they already have, what will cause them to listen to an electronic box? This does not seem the way forward. Since it's impossible to fight team spirit the rules need changing.

wtvanhest 14y ago
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that it is clear when people have concussions and that players simply disregard the advice of coaches and play anyway. 1) "It is not always easy to know if someone has a concussion. You don't have to pass out (lose consciousness) to have a concussion." http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/traumatic-brain-injury-concussion-overview http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/traumatic-brain-injury-concuss... "Since it's impossible to fight team spirit the rules need changing." I agree, by using a G meter, we can make a specific rule that if a player's head experiences a set number of G's, the player can no longer play. That basically simplifies the entire situation because it removes the subjectivity of detecting the concussion. If I had a kid, and they wanted to play football I would want him wearing a g meter to protect my kid.
- HarryHirsch 14y ago
  At present you have the rules of the game and the helmets and padding, which encourage concussions, and they you put another device on top of that, in order to limit them. That doesn't sound as if it would lead anywhere, and past experience has shown that the evolutionary path the game has taken did nothing to improve safety, Better helmets have made the concussion problem worse. I'm not comfortable with this approach, it would be better to discourage hard hits altogether instead of limiting them with a g-meter.