Aug 18, 2017, 12:51 PM
(from The Atlantic) Roughly 300,000 high school athletes get concussions every year. Diana Coyne, co-chair of The Parents Concussion Coalition, believes that states and schools will get serious about preventing concussions in high-school sports when more parents and players file lawsuits. She thinks insurance companies also might start to balk at the concussion risk in some sports, and require schools to implement stricter protocols in exchange for coverage. And as the science of brain injuries in adolescents advances, the damage caused by sports-related concussions and lesser hits to the head among the young will become too incontrovertible to ignore.
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