Brain Injuries In Professional Sports

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Professional sports is not too risky for anybody.Professional sports can be fun and interesting to play or watch. One reason that it's not too risky is that they are trying to produce better protective gear such as NFL; they are trying to make better football gear for it's players. With new safety and protective gear you can count on, there is no reason to be worried. Also if there is more research being done on brain injuries, there could also be a chance there would be less injuries or accidents during games; and that's what NFL is doing too. NFL has been donating millions of dollars towards research on brain injuries. So the more research done on brain injuries, the more knowledge we know about how to keep our self safe from any brain damage.

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