Athletes who have sustained repeated wloes to the head and hes written a book for parents who struggle with lowing their children to play. Joining me now is the author of brain damage in contact sports, dr. Bennett amalu. Thank meu for having the Winter Olympics are under way. Sports are on a lot o people minds. What should parents of children under 18 know about contt sports . Well, its always been my positon knowing what i know that no child under the age of 18 should play the high impact, high contact sports. The big six are american otball, ice hockey, mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling, and rugby. In these games, in every play, yourhild suffers wl s blows to head. There is no safe blow to the head. Repeated blows to theus head c brain damage. If your child plays fo even after just one season, your child has suffered irreversible, irrepairable d. The brain does not have any reasonable capacity to te regeneritself. Ive looked up thousands of brain cells inhabrains and yet to see