Free Webinar About Football Concussions
Nov 4th, 2008 by Coach DeLorm
So I recently got an email from a gentlemen named Dan how wanted to promote a new website called BrainLine.org. As football players get faster and stronger every year, football concussions has been on the rise and should be a concern for every football coach. Here is what he has to say about the new football concussions website:
The site is officially launching November 11, but we are hosting a free webinar featuring Christopher Nowinski on November 7. You may know Chris from his days as WWE professional wrestler Chris Harvard or as the all-Ivy defensive tackle from – you guessed it – Harvard.
After suffering a career-ending concussion in 2003, Chris left wrestling and is now the president of the Sports Legacy Institute, which is working to advance the study of sports related brain injuries.
Part of Chris’s work is reaching out to professional athletes and their families to see if they will leave their brains to science so that more can be learned about long-term effects of successive brain injuries. So far, more than a dozen professional athletes have committed themselves to this project.
Chris is also the author of Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis.
One of the largest at-risk groups for traumatic brain injury are teens between the ages of 15 and 19. Sports and “extreme” activities are one of the big reasons why. Think about how many times a kid takes a big hit and then, because he wants to stay in the game toughs it out for another set of downs. Successive brain injuries can have dramatic long-term effects. Knowing when to take a player out of the game could save his life.
Chris will be joined by BrainLine executive director Noel Gunther who will speak briefly about the BrainLine project. The web site is maintained by WETA, the PBS station in Washington, D.C.
We’ll also be setting aside some time so that both Chris and Noel could answer some questions.
If you would like to attend the event, you can send an e-mail to [email protected] (subject: Webinar RSVP) to get their own registration ID.
