established the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury committee to examine the impact of head injuries on players. However, because of its connection to the NFL, the committee provided biased findings that conflicted with the findings of other research, and this brought up an ethical problem. A law was enacted in 2009
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common type of traumatic brain injury, and competitive sports that involve player-to-player contact are a major cause ( Marar, McIlvain, Fields, & Comstock, 2012 ). Also referred to as mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), concussion is “a traumatically induced transient disturbance of brain function and
