Dr. Robert Cantu Outlines Strategies to Help Football Players Play Safer

Practicing smart, changing some of the rules, institutionalizing more consistent officiating, and placing an emphasis on strengthening the neck are all ways that would help football players avoid concussion.

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Posted on BrainLine August 30, 2013.

Produced by Noel Gunther and Erica Queen, BrainLine.

About the author: Robert Cantu, MD

Robert Cantu, MD is chief of Neurosurgery Service, chairman Department of Surgery, and director of Sports Medicine, Emerson Hospital; clinical professor, Department of Neurosurgery, and co-director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Robert Cantu