'You could have all the helmets and shoulder pads in the world—but if the athletes are running 25 mph and weigh 220 pounds, there’s only so much you can do to stop that,' said Kevin Farmer, team physician for the University of Florida Athletic Association.
in a Monday night NFL game against the Cincinnati Bengals, he likely had just three minutes to receive help before he died on the field.
“It’s a rare event that happens when you get struck right over the heart at a certain velocity and energy,” Kraus said. Commotio cordis is actually rare in football. Among sports, it and occurs most often in lacrosse, hockey, and youth baseball where the balls and pucks travel at roughly the speed and velocity—about 40 mph—needed to trigger it. In fact, in his entire career, Kraus said he had never seen an event like commotio cordis occur in football.
A look at recent history bears this out: Hamlin’s injury occurred mere months after Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered awhen he began seizing on the field following a play—which occurred just weeks after he collapsed due to a separate concussion following a brutal hit in an early season game.
For example, the current protocol to assess whether or not a player is okay to be on the field includes a questionnaire to test memory and concentration. As former Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning oncein 2011, “They have these new tests we have to take before the season [...] After a concussion, you take the same test and if you do worse than you did on the first test, you can’t play. So I just try to do badly on the first test.
He explained that the NFL has done a lot when it comes to changing the rules and updating concussion protocols in order to ensure the health and safety of their players. However, at some point, there’s just not a lot they can do as players and training styles evolve.
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