Two New Whoppers From the NFL’s and WWE’s Dr. Joseph Maroon
August 8, 2011Concussion Guru Chris Nowinski’s Silence on Corrupt NFL Doc Maroon’s Ridiculous Statements Speaks Sad Volumes
August 10, 2011
In a newly published interview, Pittsburgh Steelers neurosurgeon and World Wrestling Entertainment medical director Dr. Joseph Maroon says:
“I saw some statistics a few years back, if you look at the time that kids … spend in automobiles at the same time they could be on the practice fields … the incidence of injury from being in car accidents would be significantly higher than participating in sports.”
Maroon has not responded to my request for backup for this preposterous statement.
The co-chair of the National Football League’s concussion policy committee, Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, has not responded to my queries to him to resolve the contradictions between Maroon’s public statements about concussions and his own.
Is there a doctor in the house?
Irv Muchnick
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The institution of sport has a long history of generally discounting/minimizing sport-related injuries. A critical and indepth analysis of sport related injury has clearly been lacking.
Poirier and Wadsworth (2000)advocated for the need to move beyond a mere reporting of injury-related statistical data and thus critically examine the frequency of injury-occurrence and related player-safety issues: “Any sport has an inherent risk of injury. A balance must be reached between maintaining a competitive edge and ensuring participant safety” (p.278).
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Extrapolating the ‘logic’ of Dr. Maroon’s statement… then if crime rates are 50% in your neighborhood…and ½ of your neighbors are robbed and mugged…the occurrence is no big deal since that is what the stats predict and should be expected to happen… wow !!!
Finally,if unbiased and free of conflict of interest (COI) researchers and clinicians culled the concussion literature there is a preponderance of credible evidence that the brain is permanently injured as a result of sustaining one or more concussions. H.S. Martland’s 1928 JAMA article entitled Punch Drunk is one of many revealing historical concussion-related articles resting on your local medical library ‘electronic shelf’.
Thus it seems ‘strange’ that with the vast array of resouces available to large organizations this research info has not been uncovered/discovered by these organizations, yet research stats pertaining to automobiles…were located.