“One simple question: Do you want to be rich, famous, demented, and dead at 40?” So asks Dr. Rajendra Kale, of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, of the thousands of young hockey players (football players should include themselves) who risk brain damage after years of hits large and small. Concussions have finally become the top health topic in sports, but despite just about everyone agreeing that it’s time we worry about our kids’ brains, what are we actually going to do about it? Danny Crossman, a British Army bomb disposal expert who chatted with Al Jazeera, has one answer: He’s developed helmets that can detect concussions before repeated trauma causes compounded damage. - By Derek MeadImage via.
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