Head injuries and heading.

[ramAnag]

Its not just sports, rA, its any occupation or activity. Even bean counters nowadays are exposed to RSI, carpel tunnel, eyesight issues from working on computers. PTSD from crowded commuter trains etc! I imagine the same is true for most occupations, even teaching! Obviously in the industrial sectors, building trades etc etc there are risks of significant injury.

Whatever anyone does in life generally comes with a risk element - go shopping you might be involved in a car crash, may get bombed and so on. Whatever we do in life has a consequence, but is that a reason for not doing it. The nanny state might want to strip away all this risk, but if they did, we would all have to stay indoors in bed, and even then risk getting bed sores!

So for sure we are seeing emerging consequences in whatever we do in life, and the risks attached to any activity are being emphasisied. Looking at recent posts, it seems several of us have had to stop playing golf because of bodily problems that may have been due to actually playing it. But as someone with a shoulder rotator cuff problem probably due to golf and a broken finger from cricket, I don't regret a life in which I played both - the pleasure in earlier life may seem far away now, and the shoulder pain an aggravation, but I wouldn't change a thing (even if I could)

Take your point completely, well apart from the ‘bean counters’.
I agree with your sentiment about how you wouldn’t ‘change a thing’ but then I guess your shoulders or, in my case, fingers and a variety of scars don’t compare to long term brain damage...if heading was indeed the cause.

There don’t seem to be as many high profile incidents related to rugby and possibly cricket where I’d have thought incidents of concussion were probably higher.