Brett Favre Parkinson's

[SlowGettingUp]

Brett Favre just disclosed he is being treated for Parkinson's Disease. Along with CTE, Parkinson's can result from repeated concussions.

Brett Favre Diagnosed With Neurological Disorder

NFL legend made the disclosure as part of his testimony about a welfare misspending scandal

www.medpagetoday.com

Football is known to be associated with Parkinson's:

In this cross-sectional study that leveraged data from the Fox Insight online study, 729 participants with a history of playing organized football had higher odds of having a reported parkinsonism or PD diagnosis compared with participants in other organized sports. Longer duration of play and higher level of football play were associated with higher odds of a reported diagnosis.

American Football Play and Parkinson Disease Among Men

American Football Play and Parkinson Disease Among Men - PMC

What is the association between participation in organized American football and odds of having a reported diagnosis of parkinsonism or PD? In this cross-sectional study that leveraged data from the Fox Insight online study, 729 participants with a ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Relevant for those complaining about the new kickoff format (which will likely get adjusted). The rate of concussions during a NFL kickoff return was 4x higher than during other plays.

 

[XLIX]

Relevant for those complaining about the new kickoff format (which will likely get adjusted). The rate of concussions during a NFL kickoff return was 4x higher than during other plays.

But... but.... the new kickoff is boring!! And the StarCaps are ugly!!!

 

[raduray]

Maybe Tua should pay attention to this. I have a BIL who has late stage Parkinson's and it's not pretty, both for him or his family.

 

[IcyPatriot]

A certain member here will say well it was and is his life ... this what he says regarding Tua.
As I said in the Tua thread ... a player return to their baseline simply is way off the mark for players with a record of multiple concussions.
The NFL also has an extremely poor record in providing medical care for retired veterans ... Billionaires can be stingy.
Wish him well hope he gets the very best care ... always liked to watch him ... many of us didn't understand it all back then also.

 

[Triumph]

Terrible.

Farve is still young.

 

[TheRainMaker]

Favre was a fun QB to watch in the 90's.

This is terrible news.

 

[PancakeBlockPaul]

Do we have any stats for the caps yet? Anyone get concussed wearing them yet? Scary thing about concussions is that you can’t see them. We only know of the ones where someone gets blown up and goes fencing…too soon? I wonder if making all skill (not sure why they call them this) players wear the cap would help. Or would changing out your helmet between kickoff and offense/defense be too much? Spitballing here..

 

[Pape]

Do we have any stats for the caps yet? Anyone get concussed wearing them yet? Scary thing about concussions is that you can’t see them. We only know of the ones where someone gets blown up and goes fencing…too soon? I wonder if making all skill (not sure why they call them this) players wear the cap would help. Or would changing out your helmet between kickoff and offense/defense be too much? Spitballing here..

Since debuting in 2020 during Jaguars training camp and subsequently becoming a fixture of preseason practices for most positions, data supports Guardian Caps do indeed work as advertised.

In an appearance on "Good Morning Football" last August, NFL executive VP Jeff Miller told NFL Network that the caps had reduced concussions by over 50 percent during the preseason. Additionally, it's been estimated that impact is reduced by around 20 percent in a collision between two players wearing the headgear and 10 percent when only one player is wearing it.

"We now have two years of data showing significant concussion reductions among players who wear Guardian Caps," Miller said in a statement in April.

"Additionally, there are new helmets this year that provide as much — if not more — protection than a different helmet model paired with a Guardian Cap. These developments represent substantial progress in our efforts to make the game safer for players."

Who wears a guardian cap in NFL? Players who have worn new, protective helmet in 2024 so far | Sporting News

Here's everything to know about who wears a guardian cap in the NFL, including the players who have worn the new, protective helmet in 2024 so far.

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Who wears a guardian cap in NFL? Players who have worn new, protective helmet in 2024 so far | Sporting News

Here's everything to know about who wears a guardian cap in the NFL, including the players who have worn the new, protective helmet in 2024 so far.

www.sportingnews.com

Historically helmets were designed to avoid skull fractures rather than concussions. But the new helmets designed to avoid concussions might even be better than the Guardian caps.

Players have an incentive to hide concussions:

Brady somehow managed to avoid being on the concussion list for his 20-plus seasons with the Patriots. His secret? Keeping his concussions a secret! In a 2017 interview, Brady’s supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, described Brady having a concussion in 2016 and previous years. Yet, this was never documented. Following Bundchen’s comments, the NFL and NFL Players Association launched an investigation and concluded there was no evidence that Brady had suffered a concussion, and this was reported on the NFL’s website on September 6, 2017. In April 2020, Brady admitted that he had sustained concussions while with the Patriots. Unsurprisingly, the NFL’s press release concluding Brady did not have a concussion was removed from the NFL’s website later that year.

Given what these injuries do to job security, NFL players have a real incentive to hide their symptoms.

Is the NFL making progress in tackling its concussion crisis?

Concussion counts are not as objective as they may seem.

arstechnica.com

 

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Historically helmets were designed to avoid skull fractures rather than concussions. But the new helmets designed to avoid concussions might even be better than the Guardian caps.

Players have an incentive to hide concussions:

Is the NFL making progress in tackling its concussion crisis?

Concussion counts are not as objective as they may seem.

arstechnica.com

and the new helmets could be offer more protection with the guardian caps... the progression of protection...

 

[Triumph]

Favre was a fun QB to watch in the 90's.

This is terrible news.

He was a knucklehead with the Falcons. I was living in Atlanta at the time, but I did not know who he was. The locals hated the Falcons anyway. Favre would go out during the weeknights to Buckhead which is a huge entertainment area where he would swill down beer and eat chicken wings. He gained weight of course drawing the ire of Jerry Glanville which wasnt hard to do. Basically, Favre got himself shipped out of town.

 

[Nikolai]

Players have an incentive to hide concussions:

This is one of the key reasons we're still having problems with this.

While the NFL focuses on band-aids, there are some bigger issues at play here. Any discussion regarding player safety needs to start with the nature of contracts and guaranteed salaries, especially injury clauses. Other things, like elongated schedules, the effect of the passing game on concussion numbers, and equipment are also very helpful, but money is the bottom line for a lot of, if not all, of these players.

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

It’s sad and more common than we hear. Two Baltimore colts lived in my neighborhood when I was a kid. Don shinnick and bill Pellington. Both were linebackers and both died in their 60s of brain maladies, most like from CTE. Frontal lobe dimensia and Alzheimer’s

 

[aluminum seats]

Parkinson’s can come from a million different places. We’re turning it into a football thing here, which is understandable but certainly not necessarily the case. Either way, I wish him well.

 

[Real fan 02]

Brett Favre just disclosed he is being treated for Parkinson's Disease. Along with CTE, Parkinson's can result from repeated concussions.

Brett Favre Diagnosed With Neurological Disorder

NFL legend made the disclosure as part of his testimony about a welfare misspending scandal

www.medpagetoday.com

Football is known to be associated with Parkinson's:



American Football Play and Parkinson Disease Among Men

American Football Play and Parkinson Disease Among Men - PMC

What is the association between participation in organized American football and odds of having a reported diagnosis of parkinsonism or PD? In this cross-sectional study that leveraged data from the Fox Insight online study, 729 participants with a ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Relevant for those complaining about the new kickoff format (which will likely get adjusted). The rate of concussions during a NFL kickoff return was 4x higher than during other plays.

Was this discovered after the 77 million welfare money or before? Pretty convenient it comes out now.

 

[captain stone]

When considering that he’s ****ed us over on at least 4 different occasions…Who?

 

[TommyD4207]

Was this discovered after the 77 million welfare money or before? Pretty convenient it comes out now.

This is the most relevant question.

 

[Real fan 02]

This is the most relevant question.

Yes, seems like a PR move from farves people.

 

[farn]

Yes, seems like a PR move from farves people.

While I certainly don’t wish Parkinson’s on others, this individual is not a good person. I’ve never understood why illness and death ‘force us’ to reassess jerks.

Jerk while alive, jerk now, jerk when he is gone.

 

[Real fan 02]

While I certainly don’t wish Parkinson’s on others, this individual is not a good person. I’ve never understood why illness and death ‘force us’ to reassess jerks.

Jerk while alive, jerk now, jerk when he is gone.

Yes becuase it's a way to try to portray a person who's done something wrong in the public eye to make people feel sympathy. There was no talk of this during any point leading up to him using impoverished folks money.