Concussions are a common risk in all sports, but especially with football and most notably in the NFL. Unfortunately, the latest player to sustain a concussion is Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. After a nasty hit that left him stumbling in the third game of the season, Tagovailoa re-entered the game and continued to play. Just five days later, he suffered another head-to-the-ground hit that forced him to leave the field on a stretcher.
In the following Q&A, David Howell, PhD, assistant professor of orthopedics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and director of the Colorado Concussion Lab, discusses the impacts of concussion injuries in professional and youth sports today.