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Brain injuries in sport tackled at conferenceRSS Feed
Brain injuries among professional sportsmen are being underestimated, it has been claimed.
Specialists in brain injuries and other medical experts have convened on Washington DC for a conference on the effects that playing American football has on the brain.
According to ScienceInsider, Constantine Lyketsos, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said: "We need to start monitoring more than the occurrence of concussions."
Speaking after the event entitled Traumatic Brain Injury in Professional Football: An Evidence-Based Perspective, Lyketsos told the news provider that he was concerned that repeated minor injuries and concussions sustained over a long period of time could eventually lead to a severe brain injury.
"We are concerned they're being underestimated," he added.
Sportsmen who suffer from traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) could be more at risk of suffering from depression, according to recent research.
A team at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle found that a majority of TBI patients suffered depression at some point in their recovery.
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