{"id":6155,"date":"2014-09-03T19:23:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T00:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salvador-ins.one.zysites.com\/blog\/youll-never-believe-these-9-true-concussion-stories-from-the-nfl\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T08:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T13:54:44","slug":"youll-never-believe-these-9-true-concussion-stories-from-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/blog\/youll-never-believe-these-9-true-concussion-stories-from-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll never believe these 9 true concussion stories from the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Football fans are gearing up for the NFL regular season, which kicks off this Thursday night as the Green Bay Packers take on the Seattle Seahawks. But as a new season begins, there is no denying the reality of injuries for many NFL football players.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The game is extremely physical, which has been evident for decades, and it is no surprise that being a player in the NFL comes with considerable physical risk. But in recent years the mental health problems related to concussions have come to the forefront, and a lawsuit filed against the league by NFL players and veterans is gaining momentum. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Concussions figure to be the NFL&#8217;s hot-button issue of 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Many retired players are feeling the cognitive effects of their time in the NFL, dealing with symptoms including short-term memory loss, headaches, depression and anger. A recent study commissioned by the NFL reported that Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other memory-related diseases are diagnosed in former NFL players at a rate of 19 times more than the normal rate for men ages 30 to 49. Furthermore, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative disease diagnosed postmortem, is found more often in NFL players or individuals with a history of repeated concussions and other head injuries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertycasualty360.com\/author\/hannah-bender-propertycasualty360com\" rel=\"author\">Hannah Bender, PropertyCasualty360.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football fans are gearing up for the NFL regular season, which kicks off this Thursday night as the Green Bay Packers take on the Seattle Seahawks. But as a new season begins, there is no denying the reality of injuries for many NFL football players. The game is extremely physical, which has been evident for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":null,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salvadorinsurance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}