<p>Football starts the first weekend of the school year which is early September. The heat and humidity is lethal (literally). There are years when you can play frisbee on Christmas Day in just a long sleeved shirt. And I live in NORTH Texas.</p>
<p>I remember the first time I came to NY City–in 1969. It was a *Wizard of Oz *moment–I wasn’t in Kansas anymore!</p>
<p>This also operates in reverse. FOOTBALL is KING in Texas HS. You might also remember the Texas mom who was criminally prosecuted for murder for hire when she sought to have the mother of a rival cheerleader of her daughter killed so that the girl would be so upset that her daughter would get selected a cheerleader. It is beyond explanation to some one not from here.</p>
<p>Here is the Texas UIL publication for parents. Take a look at around page 41. It addresses heat issues.</p>
<p>I’ve been to Paris, France 9 times but not once to NYC. I really want to go, it just seems when I have money to spend on a trip, I tend to end up in Paris or somewhere tropic. </p>
<p>I’m determined to figure out a way to get there soon.</p>
<p>Not necessarily. There have been numerous doctors and other medical professionals who have come out and said that they would support their son if he chose to play football. These are individuals who are on the front lines of concussion recgonition and management…</p>
<p>There are also a number of them who are claiming the NFL did nothing to warn them about the inherent risks. I personally find that to be complete nonsense. Do I think the NFL screwed some things up? Absolutely. I consider the NFL one of the worst offenders with this whole concussion issue currently. But I also blame the players quite heavily. The ones who are telling the media that they would flat-out lie about concussion symptoms in order to keep playing. </p>
<p>Also I believe it was either Archie Manning or it was Tom Brady’s father who came out awhile back saying that looking back, he wouldn’t have let his son(s) play football if he knew then what he knew now. I think that’s easy enough to say after your son has made millions of dollars playing the sport and been at the very top…</p>
<p>I used to say I was glad I didn’t have sons because I’d be so worried about football injuries. Then my daughter got two very serious concussions from playing soccer. TBI are very, very frightening. </p>
<p>I saw “Moose” from the Dallas Cowboys on TV saying he lets his boys play football. I guess I was a little surprised because I had thought he was one of the players concerned about what all his years of getting knocked around/knocking others around might mean for his long term brain health. Maybe I mistook him for someone else.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s just football. Decades ago when I was a tennis coach, i looked for alternative things for the kids to do if the temp was over 90 degrees…mostly because i get dizzy and nauseous when it’s over 90 but I was definitely “unusual” in that regard. In our area, physicians, PTs and coaches are becoming increasingly active in the day to day management of kids involved in sports and everything from heat stroke or exhaustion to concussion management to joint injuries. And concussions are not limited to football, they are seeing injuries in soccer players as well especially girls. We, as a nation, are definitely becoming more aware of how we can easily protect our kids. I know that 30-40 years ago none of this was discussed.</p>
<p>Absolutely true. In fact, I’m getting ready to walk out the door in about 15 minutes to go speak to parents and athletes regarding concussions. That is required for ALL athletes.</p>
<p>It’s really not just football–my freshman year of HS soccer, my coach was a ‘tough love’ kind of person…2 a days 8-10 am and 6-8 pm for a month. Indiana HS athletics mandates limited practice when heat/humidity is above a certain point, and her idea of limited was an unannounced 3 mile run. Needless to say, we had several girls (including myself) in the training room because of the heat. On the contrary, her replacement said that when it was hot, it didn’t matter what we were doing, you carried your water bottle with you to each drill station, and if you needed a drink, you took it. She was tough, but also smart.</p>
<p>Studies that depend on health care providers or coaches are going to be radical underestimates, as the vast majority of players will neither report to coaches, nor do coaches routinely refer to health care providers.</p>
<p>Current research on concussions and concussion management is provided by physiatrists, rehab and/or sports medicine specialists, neurologists and neuropsychologists, and research should include measures of response bias/validity. Older studies lacking this are often unreliable and based largely on self report (usually retrospective and often quite some time after the incident (s) ) and radiological studies which may or may not correlate.</p>