(July 3, 2018 at 11:57 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: I know that footballers, boxers, and maybe other sports have an abnormally high rate of concussion-related brain damage, and I was honestly shocked to find that this was actually something that only came to light fairly recently.
That's professional footballers and boxers etc. Most of those occurred during training as well, which is going to be way different for a professional than just a guy taking a boxing class.
That's also a piss poor excuse to not do sports, the vast majority of which have no concussion risk. Every study done since this was studied first around 1900 concludes that sport are good for mental health.