Concussions can lead to lower leg injuries?

Fascinating research makes sense

Tom Haberstroh has important concussion insight, just published on Yahoo! He talked to neuroscientist Chris Nowinski, who is the founder and CEO of the Concussion & CTE Foundation.

The first note is that the 48 hours the NBA mandates concussed players to sit out is not a science-backed amount of time to heal.

“While [the two-day layoff] is understandable,” Nowinski said, “I don’t know if the NBA has gotten burned yet by having a 48-hour rule. The day will come when someone returned too soon and has a second injury, whether to a brain injury or a lower extremity injury, because their balance was off or reaction time was off, or moving in a way they wouldn’t have moved otherwise.”

For a 7-4 center who slaloms like a guard around a forest of defenders, the potential for a downstream injury can’t be ignored. According to a 2021 study, NBA players were almost fiv…