1ºThe pressure on an athlete to continue to play after an injury is so strong. Any athlete who has suffered an injury has been faced with the pressure from their coach, their team and their own desire to perform. He was put through concussion protocol (which includes self assessment) but I’m sure he said he was fine after the hit he took in the Bills game. But looking at the film, any trainer worth their weight would know that he wasn’t regardless of what he reported. Allowing him to continue and getting another concussion only makes the first so much worse. A knee, an arm, a wrist, sure, those can be fixed. But not a brain. That’s quality of life and no game is ever worth that.
2ºHe was clearly concussed last week. They shouldn't have let him keep playing last week and he definitely shouldn't have been playing this week! Shame on the Dolphins and the NFL. I hear the commentators saying "We've never seen what happened with his hands after he went down"
As the mother of a young man with a traumatic brain injury I have...it's called a seizure. He had a seizure. They are saying "Good news he can feel his extremities!" and yes that is really good. Means his spine is likely ok but he still has a brain injury. I 100% certain of it and it is likely even worse because he was concussed last week.
He. Should. Not. Have. Been. Playing.
3ºPer Neuroscientist Chris Nowinski, Ph.D., one hour before tonight's game:
"If Tua takes the field tonight, it's a massive step back for #concussion care in the NFL.
If he has a second concussion that destroys his season or career, everyone involved will be sued & should lose their jobs, coaches included. We all saw it, even they must know this isn't right."
He literally had a seizure and his arms and hands were locked in an upward position -- forget about his season or career -- this could destroy his life. The fact that they cleared him to play a week after another concussion is unconscionable. I hope people DO lose their jobs and get sued!
4ºCarol Calcagno Servidio he did pass the test and supposedly it was not a concussion. The league is gonna do an investigation. I love football, I love to watch it but it’s a brutal sport. I hope the medical personnel didn’t lie but I believe he passed the concussion test. He def looked out of it but the players push themselves. No one wants to come out of the game. They play with broken ribs, broken fingers, pulled muscles. They push the human body to the breaking point. The NFL def made things safer so I hope they continue to watch out for their players. I’m happy this player left the hospital and can walk. I guess it’s the price you pay to be in the NFL
5ºHe definitely should not have been playing. Shame on whoever released him!!! Please let him rest, and I might sit him for the rest of the season, as you only get one noodle, and you need to take care of it. I am sure the trainers, doctors, etc. feel pressure to say that players are good to go, but they should not. We have posters that we have hanging in the office, for our teenagers that say "when in doubt keep them out!" I wholeheartedly agree. I mean missing a few games vs. winding up paralyzed, or worse seems like a no brainer.
6ºChad Draxler
The immediate hand position during head injury is called the fencing position. It's a tell tale sign of injury to the brain stem during a traumatic brain injury event. It occurs with moderate to worse level TBIs.
This is *exactly* what the emergency physician and on all neurologist will be looking at. In the case, it was caught on national broadcast TV, so everyone saw the immediate fencing position posture.
For those unfamiliar with neuroscience or neurobiology, whenever someone has either experienced a TBI, had an event limiting oxygen to the brain, or toxicity to the brain, physicians check for responses of the body's neurological activity (because head MRI/ CT can't show everything). A coma Glasgow test is done. One of the telltale signs of neurological impact are the limbs contorting in an rigid, odd manner.
(https://www.healthline.com/health/fencing-response)
7ºWendy Ford Morrow any level of football has concussion protocol
So that means at the beginning Of the season the take a computer test which then gives the football team a baseline per concussion standings When a player is presumed to have a concussion they take the test again those results are then placed against the baseline concussion results. The issue is that 10 year old To NFL all know how to bet the test. Then after test results come MRI and CT scans then all data is present to a concussion specialist MD
For all we knew maybe he was cleared to play or given the option to play we don't know and truly unless your paying his salary or his family or spouse I am sure opinions are needed
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9ºTake head concussion seriously, NFL management: Tua Tagovailoa Removed From Field After Second Head Hit in Two Games
The N.F.L. quarterback left Thursday’s game on a stretcher after his head was slammed to the turf. The players’ union had previously asked for an investigation of his team’s handling of the concussion protocol.
Medical staff examined Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa after he was hit in the second quarter on Thursday night.
By Ken Belson - New York Times
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was carted off the field on a stretcher during a game Thursday night after he appeared to experience his second head injury in less than a week when he was thrown to the ground, hitting his head on the turf. Midway through the second quarter of a game between Miami and the Cincinnati Bengals, Tagovailoa dropped back to pass around midfield. Bengals defensive tackle Josh Tupou grabbed Tagovailoa, spun him around and threw him to the ground. Tagovailoa’s elbow hit the ground first, and then the back of his helmet.
Tagovailoa immediately raised his hands with his fingers splayed, a gesture called a “fencing response” that can be a sign of brain injury. Dolphins trainers ran onto the field and, after several minutes, put Tagovailoa on a stretcher and wheeled him off the field. A few minutes later, the broadcasters announced that Tagovailoa had sustained head and neck injuries, was conscious and had been taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The team said on Twitter that he had movement in all his extremities. Dolphins Coach Mike McDaniel told a sideline reporter that the injury was a “scary moment.” Chris Nowinski, the chief executive of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, who has often criticized the N.F.L.’s handling of concussions, was unsparing on Thursday night.
“This is a disaster,” he wrote on Twitter soon after Tagovailoa was wheeled off the field. “Pray for Tua. Fire the medical staffs and coaches. I predicted this and I hate that I am right.” But Tagovailoa’s injury raised fresh questions about the Dolphins’ handling of the league’s concussion protocol, which first arose because of the team’s decision to allow him to re-enter a game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday after a hit in which he appeared to slam his head on the turf left him wobbly. In the second quarter of that game in Miami Gardens, Fla., Tagovailoa was pushed to the ground, hit his head, grabbed the sides of his helmet, staggered to his feet and, after taking a few steps, fell to his knees. He walked off the field and spent the rest of the first half in the locker room, but he returned to play in the second half.
His return prompted the N.F.L. Players Association to begin an inquiry into the Dolphins’ handling of the injury, an option added to the collective bargaining agreement in 2020. The process includes reviewing video and interviewing team and league doctors who diagnosed Tagovailoa. The process can take weeks. The union said on Twitter on Thursday that it hoped Tagovailoa would have “a full and speedy recovery” and that its investigation was ongoing. On Wednesday, the N.F.L. said that it welcomed the inquiry into the handling of this incident on Sunday. On a conference call with reporters, Jeff Miller, the league’s executive vice president of communications, public affairs and policy, said that “every indication” was that the league protocols were followed. The Dolphins listed Tagovailoa as “questionable” on the team’s injury report ahead of Thursday’s game with a “back/ankle” issue.
After Tagovailoa’s exit from a second game, the league’s confidence in its concussion protocols could be questioned anew. His injury in a prime time N.F.L. game followed that of Bills cornerback Dane Jackson, who was also carted off the field during a Monday night game on Sept. 19 after he inadvertently collided with teammate Tremaine Edmunds. The hit caused Jackson’s head and neck to snap back. He was released from Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo the following day after being cleared by a CT scan. “It brings us back to the reality of the violence of the game, and I hope it gives people perspective,” said the veteran cornerback Richard Sherman, a commentator for Amazon, which broadcast Thursday’s game. “These are human beings and they have families and they have futures and they’re putting it all out on the line to entertain people.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2...ead-injury.html
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