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Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic
Simon & Schuster
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 145162722X
EAN: 9781451627220
Kindle: B004INHGC0
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Non-Fiction
FOR FAR TOO LONG, the menace of concussions has been hidden
in plain sight. On playing fields across America, lives are
being derailed by seemingly innocuous jolts to the head.
From the peewees to the pros, concussions are reaching
epidemic proportions. This book brings that hidden epidemic
and its consequences out of the shadows. As frightening as the numbers are—estimates of
sports-related concussions range from 1.6 million to 3.8
million annually in the United States—they can’t begin to
explain the profound impact of a hidden health problem that
can strike any of us. It is becoming increasingly clear that
concussions, like severe head traumas, can rob us of our
memory, our mental abilities, our very sense of self.
Because the damage caused by a concussion is rarely visible
to the naked eye or even on a brain scan, no one knows how
many millions might be living lives devastated by an
invisible injury too often shrugged off as “just a bump on
the head.” This book puts a human face on a huge public health crisis.
Through narratives that chronicle the poignant experiences
of real people struggling with this invisible and often
unrecognized brain injury, Linda Carroll and David Rosner
bring home its potentially devastating consequences. Among
those you will meet are a high school football player whose
college dreams were derailed by a series of undiagnosed
concussions, a hard-driving soccer star whose own struggles
with concussions pushed her to crusade for safety reform as
a coach and soccer mom, and an economist who lost her career
because of lingering concussion symptoms from a fender bender. The Concussion Crisis weaves these human dramas with
compelling stories of scientists and doctors who are
unraveling the mysteries of how an invisible injury can
wreak such havoc. It takes readers into the top labs, where
scientists are teasing out what goes wrong in the brain
after a jolt to the head, and into the nation’s leading
concussion clinic, where patients get cutting-edge
management and treatment. Carroll and Rosner analyze the
cultural factors that allowed this burgeoning epidemic to
fester unseen and untreated. They chronicle the growing
public awareness sparked by the premature retirements of
superstars like NFL quarterbacks Troy Aikman and Steve
Young. And they argue for an immediate change in a macho
culture that minimizes the dangers inherent in repeated
jolts to the head. The Concussion Crisis sounds an urgent wake-up call to
parents, coaches, trainers, doctors, and the athletes
themselves. The book will stand as the definitive
exploration of this heretofore-silent health crisis. It
should be required reading for every parent with a child
playing sports—in fact, by everyone who has ever suffered a
hard bump on the head.
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