Chaney's Blog: Recent Comments

Comment on 26 Football Fatality Cases of America 2011

Matt Chaney — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:15:21 GMT

Thank you, Dirk, and I appreciate the impact of you and BrainChampions.org in these critical health issues of physical activity for American young people.

In fact, your fine journalism in sports-writing is cited for a key head-injury case in my pending blog on 220 severe casualties of American football in 2011.

I agree, Dirk, the scope of athletic-injury epidemic is much broader than most of us has yet conveyed, with so much unnecessary consequence--for immense costs in moral fortitude and public resources of the culture--and I count myself for having much work remaining.

Matt Chaney

Comment on 26 Football Fatality Cases of America 2011

dirk knudsen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:34:27 GMT

This work you have done is important and commendable. Our organization works for change in the Concussion and TBI arena in youth sports but unfortunately a lot of that work is focused on football. We are constantly pushed on our statistics which are similar to these you are reporting.

We appreciate this work and will work harder in our cause. Anything you can do to help us is greatly appreciated.

Best wishes and thanks for the time you spent on this.

Regards

Dirk T Knudsen
BrainChampions.org

Comment on Book Excerpt: 'I might've been like Alzado'

Noah Berkowitz — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:27:10 GMT

Thanks for sharing article...

Comment on "Dianabol, first widely used steroid, turns 50 this year," New York Daily News

Matt Chaney — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:39:26 GMT

Thank you for reading.

Comment on "Dianabol, first widely used steroid, turns 50 this year," New York Daily News

Dorian Friedman — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:25:13 GMT

This is a great blog. Keep the good work and information.

Comment on 'Ordinary' Football Disables and Kills at Schools, Colleges

Matt Chaney — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:04:28 GMT

Will do, George, and great to hear from you. Your stance regarding public education's growing dilemma with tackle football is gaining traction steadily, with people of all walks. Blood-sport football is headed to complete privatization, and possibly outright ban for juveniles. As for college football, of which we're both intimately familiar, the brutality and lack of proper medical care--including in the longterm for thousands of players disabled annually--is largely escaping scrutiny for now. But that won't last; too many lives are altered by the injuries of the NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA, with too much money in healthcare costs assumed by common consumers and even taxpayers. And the morality of college football? Gutter level, as we know.

Comment on 'Ordinary' Football Disables and Kills at Schools, Colleges

george beres — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:49:49 GMT

Matt: I got to see your essay on football injuries thanks to John Hurst. Would you send me directly to my E address a copy of it? I am a former college sports information director (Northwestern and Oregon) who feels strongly that personal danger to players demands that schools drop the sport. You know the resistance I will get for that idea. But maybe you and I could work together to achieve some progress.

Comment on Research of NFL Brain Trauma Sputters Along

Matt Chaney — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:12:41 GMT

Thank you, David, and I agree the NFL must only be starting point for finding the vast epidemic of brain trauma in the game, that affecting younger players. Many if not most experts agree now that kids 14 years and younger should not even play contact football. I'm relieved my son didn't and worry more than ever of my own head-on contact exposures through my four years of prep and college football. Cognitive damage of impacts would explain some of my experiences since my latter 30s; I'm 51 now. My severe knee injury and steroid use at college--where I blasted away with my facemask and endured throbbing headaches on many occasions--seem a little quaint today, juxtaposed with head injuries.

Matt

Comment on Research of NFL Brain Trauma Sputters Along

David Meggyesy — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:35:21 GMT

Great job Matt. This should be in every NFL and college football locker room. The NFL is the tip of the iceberg. What is going on in the colleges and high schools.

Comment on Book Excerpt: 'Limit Player Sizes in Football to Reduce Doping, Improve Health'

Matt Chaney — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:51:49 GMT

Thank you, Mr. Ritter, for the release on Christopher Randolph's new review that rebukes ImPACT for false-negative results in baseline testing.

Great to see the information getting into circulation, since our "watchdog" news media are to embrace the invalidity of so-called concussion testing.

Doesn't America wish the problem were so simple, diagnosing and managing brain trauma in beloved tackle football.

I hear that reviews upcoming in the United States and Europe will corroborate Randolph's findings. And there will be more.