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Fox 29 - October 18, 2010
Posted Oct 18, 2010 -- webcomm
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Concussions are getting a closer look in the NFL these days. How big has the problem become at the college level? Dwight Stansbury, head athletic trainer at Temple, said football players here are now more likely to come and see him when they think they might have suffered a concussion. He has a theory as to why concussions are now getting the attention that he's always given them. "It's the research that's come out on former athletes, football players especially, who've had early onset dementia and Alzheimer's — things they found at autopsy on the damage that's been done to their brains."