As previously mentioned, roughly one hundred and forty-eight years (1869) have passed since the first football game. Concussion-like symptoms sustained after a brain injury were first reported in the ancient times by the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. Additionally, the more accurate description of concussion-like symptoms was found in the Hippocratic Corpus from ancient Greece. Overall, it was not until the 9th century that the actual term concussion was coined. “Arabic physician Rhazes was the first to define concussion as an abnormal physiological state,” states Brenda Seymour, and his work proposed the first proposed idea on the mechanism of injury for a concussion. A better understanding of brain anatomy was developed in the 16th century,
