‘Jerry McDevitt vs. Mike Benoit’ Is Not as Important as ‘WWE Lobbyists vs. the Regulators’
January 10, 2011More Questions About WWE Medical Director Joseph Maroon
January 12, 2011
With the Pittsburgh Steelers about to open their playoff schedule Saturday in quest of a franchise record-extending seventh Super Bowl title, one of their long-time team physicians, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon, is under heightened scrutiny for his role in the National Football League’s increasingly visible concussion issue. It’s a role best described as some undetermined compound of “part of the problem” and “part of the solution.”
Last week Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico called for a Federal Trade Commission probe of Riddell helmets, an official NFL supplier, for the company’s consumer-product claim of a new design promising to decrease concussions by 31 percent. That number was based on a research paper co-authored by Dr. Maroon and commissioned by Riddell. Maroon told the New York Times that Riddell advertising overreached from a limited sample of his results, which require further testing.
CONTINUED TODAY ON THE FRONT PAGE AT BEYOND CHRON, THE SAN FRANCISCO ONLINE NEWSPAPER, http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Joseph_Maroon_Doctor_for_NFL_and_WWE_Has_It_Every_Which_Way_on_Concussions_8803.html.
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Irvin,
You should look into the the NFL selection of the ImPact concussion management system. How ImPact was validated? How the neuropyschologists were hand selected by Mark Lovell and Mickey Collins – Maroon’s partner in ImPact?
Schools use it because the NFL uses it. Do you think schools wound use it, if they knew that its selection was fixed and the so-called experts who interpret it also sell their services to schools based on the NFL affliation.
Ever wonder how glassy eyed players like Rothlisberger clear in a single day of a concussion. You have only touched the edge of the story.