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Dr. Robert Cantu talks about how Commissioner Goodell and the NFL and taking aggressive action to make football safer by changing some of the rules like limiting full contact practices to only once per week and not in the off season.

Dr. Robert Cantu talks about the importance of athletes having a comprehensive baseline test and neurologic assessment at the start of the season, and how those tests should ideally be administered.

Dr. Robert Cantu talks about the research being done with helmet and headband sensors as well as other tools to study the effects of subconcussive hits on athletes.

Dr. Robert Cantu talks about how growing research is showing that CTE not only occurs in the brains of older athletes who have sustained multiple hits to the head, but also in athletes as 17.

Ironically, there are fewer rules and less education about sports concussions in youth sports than in the pros. Dr. Robert Cantu says standard guidelines should be mandated across the board.

Dr. Robert Cantu talks about his collaboration with Christopher Nowinski and the Sports Legacy Institute, a not-for-profit  working to advance the study, treatment, and prevention of the effects of brain trauma in athletes and other at-risk groups.

Researchers are still learning why it is that head trauma is the main factor for CTE, but not all people with head trauma develop CTE.

"You're going to have to choose life over football if you got a concussion..."

Retired NFL player Thomas Jones is on the fence about whether he would want his nephews and future kids to play football.

Retired NFL player Thomas Jones is making a documentary about the players, the fans, the money, the concussions, the suicide and how all these parts are like a "bad puzzle where none of the pieces fit together."

From seeing double to feeling like you are having an out-of-body-experience, retired NFL player Thomas Jones does not mince words on what a football-related concussion really feels like.

Retired NFL player Thomas Jones talks about how the NFL is making some rule changes and teammates are looking out for each other more, but the game of football is and probably always will be dangerous.