Mainstream research and coverage of brain injuries and sports tend to be around men and the NFL.
Since the start of this year, Netflix has released two juxtaposing series about sports and the often darker, untold truths behind them. Cheer, which has amassed a large following in pop culture , is a six-part docu-series that follows the lives of cheerleaders from Navarro College as they train for a competition. Much of the show focuses on the emotional toll that comes with being part of a competitive and high disciplinary sport.
ADVERTISEMENT While both shows are entertaining and perfectly made for watching one after another throughout a small time period—it does raise questions about why sports injuries aren’t taken as seriously as possible. In the past decade, there has been some development and conversation around CTE . In 2017, the year Hernandez died, The New York Times posted a study that evaluated 111 deceased NFL players. All but one had CTE.
“While male concussions are more likely to be followed by amnesia, for instance, female ones are more likely to lead to prolonged headaches, mental fatigue and difficulties with concentration, and mood changes,” Bronson wrote. He added that a study also found “females took 76 days to recover, while males took 50 days” after a concussion.
The most surprising factor was how the menstrual cycle is involved in these symptoms during the aftermath because of the decrease in progesterone; which causes emotional changes. Despite this evidence, in both women and men, that concussions are life-changing and damaging injuries, this report, as with many others online concludes with a similar tone: “there is still a great deal of knowledge about sex, gender and concussion needed, for results to make their way into policy and practice.
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