″ football, hockey, rugby, boxing, kick-boxing and MMA to be amongst the worst sports for this stuff.” - - I’m not up to date on the current literature but I’m pretty sure this list is rather wrong. I don’t remember all the details of the study I do remember (and I don’t have time for a lit review) but in it women’s high school soccer actually had the highest concussion rate (idk if it was per participant season or hour or per game minute or...).
I find it absurd on priors to think that soccer of any demographic could result in more concussions than any of those five full-contact sports, particularly the three where part of the objective is explicitly to hit your opponent in the head very hard if you can. (Even factoring in the fact that you do a bunch of headers in soccer.) (Maybe if you do some trickery like selecting certain subpopulations of the practitioners of these sports, but...)
″ football, hockey, rugby, boxing, kick-boxing and MMA to be amongst the worst sports for this stuff.” - - I’m not up to date on the current literature but I’m pretty sure this list is rather wrong. I don’t remember all the details of the study I do remember (and I don’t have time for a lit review) but in it women’s high school soccer actually had the highest concussion rate (idk if it was per participant season or hour or per game minute or...).
I find it absurd on priors to think that soccer of any demographic could result in more concussions than any of those five full-contact sports, particularly the three where part of the objective is explicitly to hit your opponent in the head very hard if you can. (Even factoring in the fact that you do a bunch of headers in soccer.) (Maybe if you do some trickery like selecting certain subpopulations of the practitioners of these sports, but...)