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As were settling in this is unintended [inaudible] part of our hearing today where were dealing with neuroscience b and medical research and physics. Well, physics when dr. Gay gets arrives. So panel two, i will introduce you from mr. Cleland on down. Mr. Cleland is the assistant director, division of advertising practices at the federal trade commission. We have ian heaten, Student Ambassador for the National Council on youth sports safety. And if i might editorialize, i think jan did a great job of juxtaposing a face of tbi and concussions on each panel. And each, as a High School Lacrosse player, is that face for the more scientificbased panel. So thank you, ian, for taking your day away from school. I know how tough it is to be pulled out of school and come testify before congress. Just like a normal high ....
United states roughly about 75 of traumatic brain injuries. It is a brain injury. There is damage to the brain. Theres a discussion about whether its permanent or temporary. In the military the rate is 77 . So it turns out that youth sports are a good model for also looking at concussion in terms of the military. In fact, most of the military concussions occur in situations most like they do with the rest of america. Some certainly occur in theater, but the majority occur outside of theater, in accidents like youth are prone to experience. If we look at brain injuries overall, there are estimates these are all estimates, of course, and they vary across the literature. Were looking at somewhere probably in the neighborhood of 4 million traumatic brain injuries per year in the United States. A sobering part of that is our birth rate in the United States is also roughly about 4 mi ....
And how best to go about changing our game to reflect that. So thats how we ended up adding creating a unified concussion protocol and returntoplay protocol for our sideline. Thats how we ended up with additional concussion experts on the sideline. This is based on the advice of outsiders who tell us this is the best way to handle your players, this is the best way to treat the game, and if you want a culture of safety, this is what you would do. We followed their advice strictly and meet with them very frequently. I noticed your title is Senior Vice President of health and safety policy. Is that position thats got to be a position that didnt exist 20 years ago. It did not exist 20 years ago. Im proud to be in that role. Its an exciting one. I know this hearing is on concussions, but since youre here, i got to ask you one other question that may be a little different topic. Over the last few years, ive communicated with the ....
Coaches and parents and kids and officials and everybody to get on the same page to help kids. If youre an administrator in a high school, your being asked a question on how youre making this favor for my kids, and we can answer that now. Thank you. We appreciate you being here, your it recognized for five minutes. Thank you very much. I am 42 years old. I served as a starting goalkeeper for the United StatesWomens National soccer team for the years of 1994 to 2008. During that time i helped to lead the team and winning to 11 old metals, in 1996 atlanta games and 2004 athens games, and late 173 International Games over 15 years for the United States. That is a record among female goalkeepers. In the summer of 1999, my 20 amazing teammates and i captured the hea ....