It seems to have taken a number of highly-publicized professional athletes to die by their own hand before people started more seriously looking at the long-term issues of traumatic brain injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n Athletes with traumatic brain injury who are still alive may well be wishing they had known more about the cumulative effect of concussions during their days playing their sport of choice \u2013 be that hockey, football, soccer or volleyball. Many professional athletes now estimate that they have sustained eight or more known concussions throughout the course of their career. While that seems like a small number, the brain doesn\u2019t count. Traumatic brain injury seriously affects those who suffer from its effects. Many parents wonder if they should sign their children up for school sports like football, when concussions are a common occurrence.<\/p>\n It has only been very recently that more educational institutions have started to pay attention to what concussions mean in (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems to have taken a number of highly-publicized professional athletes to die by their own hand before people started more seriously looking at the long-term issues of traumatic brain injury. Athletes with traumatic brain injury who are still alive…<\/span><\/p>\n