Leading Southwest Medical Expert Releases TBI Tips for NFL Players

Dr. David Durham Offers Tips to NFL Players to Promote Traumatic Brain Injury
Awareness
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
As the controversial impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among NFL players
expands, a leading Southwest medical expert has released five top tips every NFL
player and football athlete should know.

A neuropsychiatrist specializing in TBI, Dr. David Durham is the Managing
Partner and Director of Neurocognitive Regeneration at the Mosaic Neuroscience
Group in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with offices in Roswell as well as in New York
City. He offers the following:

1. A helmet does not protect the brain from blunt force. It simply reduces the
intensity of force that reaches its tissue.

2. One severe traumatic brain injury can greatly improve with rest and
rehabilitation. Minor or moderate brain injuries that occur repeatedly, without
adequate recovery, will not improve.

3. One closed head injury of moderate severity increases the risk of dementia by
almost seven times.

4. Repetitive injury to the brain over a short period of time (e.g. weeks), even
if each injury is mild, amplifies trauma to the brain.

5. Assuming number three to be correct, the estimated statistical risk of having
dementia by the age of sixty-five after sustaining only a mild (e.g. concussion)
brain injury two, three, four...... eight, ten, and even twenty-five times, is
"only" increased by an estimated two, six, eight, twenty, thirty eight, and
eighty times respectively.

"New NFL players ought to more carefully weigh the risks when they begin their
career - which may take a lot of the sparkle from the diamond Superbowl ring,"
said Dr. Durham. "New players typically sustain several TBIs without realizing
it just in the first week of their professional career. Still, they can mitigate
their risk of sustaining a more severe brain injury if they learn to recognize
early signs of trauma-if only because we have no way, as of yet, to slow the
accelerated deterioration of the brain regions injured. Today, once a brain is
damaged, its functions remain on a slippery slope for life."

Dr. David Durham has treated thousands of TBI victims, including many military
veterans. He is the former director of the Neuroscience Research Institute, a
former medical consultant to the Fox Ten O'clock News in Roanoke, Virginia, and
documentary filmmaker in Iraq. He currently is Managing partner and Director of
Neuropsychiatry and Neurocognitive Regeneration at the Mosaic Neuroscience Group
based in Santa Fe New Mexico, with offices in Roswell as well as New York City.
Dr. Durham receives no compensation from pharmaceutical companies. He served
with the US Army in the early 1990s and played football in college.

Dr. Dave Durham is available for TV, radio and print commentary on the newest
treatments in development for TBI and how athletes can recognize early signs of
TBI.

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