What the hell did people think sports concussions were before?

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Over the last 15-20 years we’ve seen professional sports crack down on concussion safety, mainly the NFL, but it’s also been a issue with pro-wrestling, and boxing.

I understand that CTE has been discovered and can only be officially diagnosed after an autopsy.

HOWEVER, what the hell did people think concussions were before? I cannot understand how any brain injury could be seen as anything less than critical.

We’ve had the term “brain damage” forever. I just don’t see how people are just now understanding that a brain injury is always serious.

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It was hard to see the long term effects at first. You get “your bell rung” or concussion and you’re fine a few days later and everything seems to have healed and you get back to it. It’s only decades later that people start getting more aggressive and impulsive as a result of CTE. Might’ve been hard to connect the dots at first. I’m sure the NFL did their part to not release any information they had about the dangers of repeated concussions as well

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