Abstract:
Concussions have become a major concern inprofessional sports particularly in the National Football League and the National Hockey League with most of the attention being directed at the NFL. With these thoughts in mind, this chapter will trace the actions taken by the NHL beginning in 1997 to the present. In some ways, the league was proactive in addressing concussion with the implementation of baseline neurological testing but was slow to implement other changes such as a formal concussion protocol. Comparisons are then be made with the NFL and conclude that the NHL did not engage in fraud and deception in terms of concussion research, but, on the other hand, conducted very little research on the subject. Finally, the article analyzes the league’s concussions policies in terms of the NHL’s culture and the structure of the league, which accounts for the conservative approach to reform
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