Immer häufiger schwere Verletzungen durch Head Shots - was tun?


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@Gitche: Concussion ist nicht gleich Concussion. Manche dauern Wochen, andere Monate - nichts ist so unberechenbar wie eine Gehirnerschütterung, deshalb gehen die Ausfallzeiten ziemlich weit auseinander.

Brisco hat schon auch Recht - die Teams sind vorsichtiger geworden, ja. Aber die Teams schrecken immer noch nicht davor zurück, die Spieler mit Schmerzmitteln vollzupumpen. Die Boogaard-Geschichte der NY Times hat da ein paar Passagen, bei denen ich nur den Kopf schütteln kann. Die Story selbst (auf nytimes.com) ist unfassbar lang, also hier mal ein Auszug:

Most N.H.L. teams have about 10 affiliated doctors — specialists and dentists with practices of their own. Boogaard had learned that there was no system to track who was prescribing what.

In one three-month stretch of the 2008-9 season with the Wild, Boogaard received at least 11 prescriptions for painkillers from eight doctors — including at least one doctor for a different team, according to records gathered by his father, Len Boogaard. Combined, the prescriptions were for 370 tablets of painkillers containing hydrocodone, typically sold under brand names like Vicodin.
Die Teams halten sich da auch extrem bedeckt:

Since the day of the funeral in May, Len Boogaard said, he has not heard from the Rangers.

The team refused to answer a detailed list of questions regarding their medical treatment of Boogaard during the season and his time in rehabilitation.

It also refused requests to speak to General Manager Glen Sather and the team physician, Dr. Andrew Feldman, among others, about Boogaard. Instead, it e-mailed a four-sentence statement from Sather that read, in part, “We worked very closely with Derek on and off the ice to provide him with the very best possible care.”
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In Minnesota two Sundays ago, the Wild honored Boogaard with a pregame tribute. The tribute showed Boogaard running over opponents, smiling with fans and talking to children. It showed each of the three N.H.L. goals he scored.

It did not show a single punch.

The Wild would not answer questions about the video. They also refused to address specific questions about Boogaard’s medical care, concussions, addiction and rehabilitation, or the availability of drugs through team doctors. Requests to speak with General Manager Chuck Fletcher and the medical director, Dr. Sheldon Burns, were refused.
Noch erschreckender ist der Teil über die Schäden, die Boogaard's Gehirn aufwies. Sicher war Boogaard ein viel beschäftiger Fighter, aber der Grad der Schädigung zeigt doch deutlich auf, wie gefährlich Hockey sein kann. Nicht nur Fights, sondern auch Hits sind da eine Gefahrenquelle. Hier der Auszug:

Boogaard had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as C.T.E., a close relative of Alzheimer’s disease. It is believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head. It can be diagnosed only posthumously, but scientists say it shows itself in symptoms like memory loss, impulsiveness, mood swings, even addiction.

More than 20 dead former N.F.L. players and many boxers have had C.T.E. diagnosed. It generally hollowed out the final years of their lives into something unrecognizable to loved ones.

And now, the fourth hockey player, of four examined, was found to have had it, too. But this was different. The others were not in their 20s, not in the prime of their careers.

The scientists on the far end of the conference call told the Boogaard family that they were shocked to see so much damage in someone so young. It appeared to be spreading through his brain. Had Derek Boogaard lived, they said, his condition likely would have worsened into middle-age dementia.
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It did not take long for Dr. Ann McKee to see the telltale brown spots near the outer surface of Boogaard’s brain — the road signs of C.T.E. She did not know much about Boogaard other than that he was a 28-year-old hockey player. And the damage was obvious.

“That surprised me,” she said.

A neuropathologist, McKee is one of four co-directors of Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy and the director of the center’s brain bank. She has examined nearly 80 brains of former athletes, mainly retired football players and boxers who spent their careers absorbing blows to the head. The center’s peer-reviewed findings of C.T.E. have been widely accepted by experts in the field. The National Football League, initially dismissive, has since donated money to help underwrite the research.

The group may now have its most sobering case: a young, high-profile athlete, dead in midcareer, with a surprisingly advanced degree of brain damage.

“To see this amount? That’s a ‘wow’ moment,” McKee said as she pointed to magnified images of Boogaard’s brain tissue. “This is all going bad.”

The degenerative disease was more advanced in Boogaard than it was in Bob Probert, a dominant enforcer of his generation, who played 16 N.H.L. seasons, struggled with alcohol and drug addictions and died of heart failure at age 45 in 2010.

In the past two years, C.T.E. was also diagnosed in the brains of two other former N.H.L. players: Reggie Fleming, 73, and Rick Martin, 59.

The condition of Boogaard’s brain, however, suggests the possibility that other current N.H.L. players have the disease, even if the symptoms have not surfaced.
Leider sieht die Liga aber da nicht wirklich Handlungsbedarf:

The N.H.L. is not convinced that there is a link between hockey and C.T.E.

“There isn’t a lot of data, and the experts who we talked to, who consult with us, think that it’s way premature to be drawing any conclusions at this point,” N.H.L. Commissioner Gary Bettman said. “Because we’re not sure that any, based on the data we have available, is valid.”

The researchers at Boston University say that C.T.E. is a nascent field of study, but that there is little debate that the disease is caused by repeated blows to the head. They said that the N.H.L. was not taking the research seriously.
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Boogaard had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as C.T.E., a close relative of Alzheimer’s disease. It is believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head. It can be diagnosed only posthumously, but scientists say it shows itself in symptoms like memory loss, impulsiveness, mood swings, even addiction.

More than 20 dead former N.F.L. players and many boxers have had C.T.E. diagnosed. It generally hollowed out the final years of their lives into something unrecognizable to loved ones.

Chris Benoit hatte C.T.E. und ist deswegen wohl auch Amok gelaufen.

Echt bitter, ich muss mir den Artikel mal durchlesen
 

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Ich warte da lieber auf ne deutschsprachige Doku. NatGeo sind da doch immer schnell bei der Sache. Wäre auch schön, wenn der Hockeysport gerade wegen dieser Brisanz mal etwas Aufmerksamkeit bekäme und aufzeigt, daß es sich hier um harten Kontaksport handelt.
Die machen daraus auch noch einen Film, wartet mal ab.
 

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Von meiner oben geposteten Liste sind Claude Giroux (4 Spiele verpasst) und Mike Richards (8 Spiele verpasst) wieder fit. Marc Staal dürfte sein Comeback in den nächsten Tagen feiern!

So positiv wie diese Nachrichten auch sind - leider gibt es auch negatives. Es gibt nämlich bereits die nächsten (namhaften) Concussion-Opfer: All-Star-Verteidiger Shea Weber (Nashville) und Routinier Simon Gagne (Los Angeles) sind mit Gehirnerschütterungen out indefinitely.

EDIT: Vielleicht könnte ein lieber Moderator in diesem Forum den Thread umbenennen ... irgendwas mit "Concussions" wäre momentan wohl treffender :) merci!
 

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Wie jetzt? Ich hatte angenommen du wärest hier der Mod. :D:confused:
 

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Neuestes Concussion-Opfer ist Danny Briere von den Flyers.

Ein paar Passagen aus einem neuen Interview von Savard:

Right now, with the way I'm still feeling and the daily issues I'm having, it's tough to see a bright future right now. It's tough, but there are days when I want to get back and play, but at the end of the day, too, I know if I got possibly hit again what could happen.

It's a day-by-day thing still. I'm still hoping that something happens and I feel a lot better, but if I felt like this, I still couldn't play.

I just want to take this whole year and see how everything goes throughout the year and really gauge myself. I tried to work out a couple of times this week and I didn't feel that bad. We'll see how that goes and just keep going.

I'm happy right now and that's the main thing. I've got no issues on the depression side. I'm around my kids every day, taking them to school and helping coach. I'm really enjoying life. I'm just happy and I'm happy to be here today. I don't have any hard feelings about anything.

"If I don't ever plan again, I'm happy. I had a decent career, if I don't play again and I'm enjoying what I'm doing right now.
 

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Eine positive Sache: Peter Mueller von Colorado hat nach mehr als eineinhalb Jahren offensichtlich (und hoffentlich) seine Probleme mit der Gehirnerschütterung überstanden. Nach zwei kurzen Comebackversuchen scheint es ihm wieder gut zu gehen auf dem Eis (zwei Tore und ein Assist im letzten Spiel). Warten wir mal ab, ob das ein Dauerzustand bleibt, aber ein schöner Anfang und vielversprechender als die letzten beiden Versuche.
Andererseits muss man das wirklich mit größerer Distanz nochmal bewerten. Crosby hatte ja in s einem Comeback auch ein Monsterspiel und kurz danach ist er wieder weg vom Fenster gewesen.
Es wäre ein Traum, wenn Mueller ein positives Beispiel für Langzeitopfer werden könnte.
 

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Morgen Montag kommt im Schweizer Fernsehen (SF2; Sportlounge ab 22.20) ein Bericht über Gehirnerschütterungen im Eishockey, Zitat Homepage (www.sf.tv):

"Hirnerschütterung: Neue Kontrollmethoden verhindern Langzeitschäden bei Hockeyspielern

Eine nicht behandelte Hirnerschütterung kann tödlich enden. Darum gibt es für Eishockeyspieler seit dieser Saison ein ausgeklügeltes Rehabilitationsprogramm. Erst wenn das Hirn wieder so gesund wie vor dem Unfall ist, darf der Spieler zurück auf das Eis. ZSC-Spieler Sandro May hat das Programm durchlaufen, am Samstag durfte er erstmals seit fast zwei Monaten wieder spielen. Die «sportlounge» mit einer Reportage."

Ich weiss nicht, was man erwarten darf, sollte ich es nicht vergessen, werde ich zumindest mal reinschauen.
Ach ja: Anschliessend kann man normalerweise alle Sendungen bei "Videoportal" noch einmal anschauen, wie es aus dem Ausland aussieht, kann ich nicht sagen.
 
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