Only 38 percent of high school football players interviewed for a recent survey admitted concern about the long-term effects of sports-related concussions, according to a studypresented Monday at the American Academy of Pediatrics national conference in New Orleans.
A total of 134 high school varsity football players responded to the confidential online survey, which asked about previous concussion history, concerns about the long-term effects of concussions, and how (if at all) attitudes had changed in recent years as more sports-related concussion research came to light.
Of the respondents, less than 10 percent of them reported ...