{"id":1894,"date":"2017-04-15T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2017-12-28T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T00:58:46","slug":"the-most-concussive-high-school-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/the-most-concussive-high-school-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Concussive High School Sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_1529804_Credit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1896 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_1529804_Credit-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_1529804_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_1529804_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_1529804_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain research can be thrilling; it can be useful; it can be confusing. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/03\/170314081533.htm\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> is&#8211;frankly&#8211;depressing.<\/p>\n<p>Over ten years, from 2005 to 2015, the authors find that the number concussions has more than <em>doubled<\/em>&#8211;even though the sports participation rate has remained almost the same.<\/p>\n<p>They also find that\u00a0the concussion rate is lower for boys playing (American) football than for girls playing (what Americans call) soccer. You read that right: girls playing soccer are in greater danger of experiencing a concussion than boys playing football.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest rate of increase in concussions over these ten years? For boys: baseball. For girls: volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>Given the short- and long-term dangers of concussions, this research merits careful attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain research can be thrilling; it can be useful; it can be confusing. This article is&#8211;frankly&#8211;depressing. Over ten years, from 2005 to 2015, the authors find that the number concussions has more than doubled&#8211;even though the sports participation rate has remained almost the same. They also find that\u00a0the concussion rate is lower for boys playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-concussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}