Aging NFL retirees ... disabled as result of football-related concussions, his request for full disability of about $8,000 a month was rejected by the league and its players' union, reports ...

Violence is an irremovable component of football, meaning head trauma and concussions are part of the risk when any player at any level of the game decides to play ball. No player in the NFL of ...

The National Football League and the NFL Players Association agreed to update the league’s concussion protocol on Saturday. The decision follows a review of the response to Miami Dolphins ...

At the heart of the NFL’s billion-dollar concussion settlement program lies a basic formula: If a retired player is found to ...

A large study looking at over 350 former National Football ... compared former players against men of the same age and found that players who had concussions during their NFL careers scored ...

The controversial correlation between football and ... who "accused the NFL of discriminating against Black players seeking compensation through the league's concussion settlement." ...

NFL players suffered the fewest concussions in a season in 2024 since the league began tracking data nine years ago. The total decline from 2023 was 17%, including all practices and games in both ...

This season the NFL changed the ... to the head — not just concussions, as previously thought — drive up CTE risk. "Over two-thirds of head impacts for a football player occur in practice ...

News last week that dozens of retired Black NFL players became eligible for payouts from the $1 billion-plus concussion settlement ... capacity from playing football, leading to changes ...

Association of Retrospectively Reported Concussion Symptoms with Objective Cognitive Performance in Former American-Style Football Players. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology , 2023; DOI: 10. ...

[JR1] Of the more than 350 former National Football League (NFL) players who were studied an average of 29 years after their playing career ended, those who reported experiencing concussion ...