How do concussions affect football players?
Concussions affects them in a variety of ways, I mean I’ve had 5 or 6 concussions and I still get headaches from playing and it’s something that goes undiagnosed a lot of the times as far as post-concussion syndrome where players get a concussion, they shake it off, and then they play the next week and they start noticing that bright lights bother them, they’re seeing–they have headaches, they have a hard time sleeping, their moods change, and there’s players that have died in the last couple years and some have committed suicide because they couldn’t diagnose post-concussion syndrome correctly and they suffer from debilitating depression, couldn’t work on a daily basis, couldn’t concetrate, and it’s something I think that the NFL has done the right thing as far as going that direction of studying it more, but it’s a major problem in pro football and that’s not diagnosing concussions correctly.
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