This hearing will come to order. I want to thank all of you very much for coming here. You are a bit squeezed in. But water is on the house. Become portable and the black. College sports has an absolutely extraordinary position in the culture of our country, not only College Sports inspired incredible fan passion across the country but provided a very important way for young men and women as is britain, both to athletics as an avocation and get aunt in education, we are doing some talk about that today. And providing an avenue to college, as they would otherwise not have existed and it is important to understand that. College athletes and athletics are rooted in the notion of amateurism. The history of that is interesting going back to the founding of the n. C. A. A. In 1906 and going back to the greekss concept of amateurism. College sports is supposed to be an avocation. Students play College Sports for love of the game, not for love of money. Many people like the notion of College S
The president on the Foreign Policy choices, both around as weve talked about with isil, but also in terms of being stronger against putin in russia. Start calling early in march for these kind of stronger opposition to his activities in ukraine and around europe. And its that reason that virginians know my record. Its that reason why, again, in this campaign im so proud to have the support of more republican, former republican legislators than when i ran the first time. If his claim had merit, i dont think that would be the case. What it is, though, is the kind of political sound bite attack charge that comes from somebody who spent their career as a partisan operative. We have two more live debates tonight on our companion network, cspan. Friday night live at 7 30 eastern from the 17th Congressional District of it gets under way 8 00 eastern. And in the debate with harkin and ernst, thats live on cspan. Then sunday, michigans governor rick snider will face mark shower. That will be l
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 million. This does not count other ways that children are exposed to head injuries. Perhaps a disciplining irate
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Concussion history the person may not think they have. How many of us have bumped our head getting in and out of the car. We have a quick Rotational Movement and that could produce, perhaps, a concussion. How does the brain recover from tbi and finally how we improve and recover, accelerate recovery. We really have no scientific basis for any interventions. Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Johnston, youre recognized for five minutes. Thank you for inviting me to testify alongside this illustrious panel about our experience. Pull the microphone better . Is that better . Following the passage of concussion legislation as well as work were currently doing at the university of alabama birmingham to improve safety. As in Nebraska Youth sports and football are an important part of our culture. As a result we take the safety of our children seriously as well. Its gained prominence over the past decade thanks to research and advocacy work by scientists, physicians, Public Health Centers Across the Un