High School Football America
Lawmakers made it mandatory last year and now the first results are out.
The MSHSAA has released the results of a survey that found that 653 high school football players suffered suspected concussions during the 2011 season. In all, there were 871 reports of suspected concussions during the fall semester with boys soccer players suffering the second highest number of suspected concussions.
Concussion Survey Results - Fall, 2011
Football - 653
Boys Soccer - 81
Girls Softball - 40
Sideline Cheerleading - 40
Girls Volleyball - 29
All other - 29
Over 23,000 student-athletes played football in Missouri last season.
The MSHSAA reports that 74% of all of its members completed the survey.
Click here to see the entire report from the MSHSAA.
On a side note, last week CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta was a guest on last week's High School Football America radio show. Dr. Gupta reported that the average high school football player receives 650 hits to the head each year.
That statistic was brought-out in Dr. Gupta's CNN documentary Big Hits, Broken Dreams that will re-air this Saturday, February 25th at 8 and 11 PM.
Click here to listen to my interview with Dr. Gupta.
