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block-system"> <div class="block-content"> <div class="uq-core-image large right horizontal"><div class="image-crop"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.uq.edu.au/news/filething/get-styled/large/332733/HaBS-History-of-Concussion-boxing-gloves-Drupal.jpg?itok=hcwWPOln" alt="A black and white image of a pair of old leather boxing gloves hanging against a brick wall" title="Image: Adobe" /></div><div class="caption">Image: Adobe</div></div><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2024-11-05T06:00:00+10:00">5 November 2024</span><div class="field field-name-field-core-body"><p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">University of Queensland researchers have uncovered the hidden history of concussion in sport, finding the brain-trauma crisis has a long and complex past. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a href="https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/24538" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr Stephen Townsend</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> from UQ’s </span></span></span><a href="https://hmns.uq.edu.au/" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences</span></span></span></a> and <a href="https://hmns.uq.edu.au/qcops" style="color:#467886; text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Queensland Centre for Olympic and Paralympic Studies</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> led a team of experts to write a special edition of the <i>Journal of Sport History</i> focusing on sport concussion. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“The research challenges assumptions that the long-term dangers of concussion are a new and unforeseeable problem that only affects professional footballers,” Dr Townsend said.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“Through 9 essays, we present evidence that the brain-trauma crisis is the product of long-term historical processes in a wide range of sports. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“We also examine the hidden history of how brain trauma caused by concussion can affect athletes’ families and the broader community.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In addition to studies of North American football, there are analyses of the historical silence of concussion among Australian Indigenous athletes, murder and domestic-violence victims, professional wrestlers and the mothers of brain-damaged athletes.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">There is also an analysis of the first recorded instance of sporting brain trauma being used as a legal defence for a major crime – the 1935 trial of boxer Del Fontaine, who murdered his girlfriend Hilda Meek. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><img alt="A newspaper clipping of the 1935 case of boxer Del Fontaine, who murdered his girlfriend Hilda Meek." src="/news//filething/get/332758/HaBS-History-of-Concussion-news-clipping.jpg" style="width: 360px; height: 240px; margin: 9px; float: left;" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr Townsend said the recent, rapid increase in concussion research made it seem like an emerging problem, however this research showed that was not the case. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“There is rising evidence linking sporting brain trauma to long-term brain diseases such as chronic trauma encephalopathy, Parkinsonism<a> </a>and other forms of dementia,” Dr Townsend said. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“However, officials, athletes and medical personnel have known about the long-term dangers of sports concussion well before now.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“This research is part of a new understanding that solving the concussion crisis will require knowledge of the social and cultural factors that influence concussion-related behaviour.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“Examining past knowledge of concussion, which has been hidden or ignored for decades, can help guide ethical and evidence-based approaches to one of the most vexing problems in modern sport.” </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:116%"><span 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