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If you're into extreme sports, you've probably landed on your head a time or two. Did you know that repeated concussions can have lasting effects, and make you more prone to future concussions?

Risks are all a part of X sports, but you shouldn't take a risk with your brain. Even minor injuries can add up.

If you want to learn more, check out a free Webinar featuring former WWE professional wrestler Chris Nowinski, a.k.a. Chris Harvard.

Today, Chris, the author of "Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis," works with researchers and professional athletes to study the long-term health effects of sports-related brain injuries. In other words, he goes up to pro athletes and asks if he could have their brains when they die.

http://www.BrainLine.org is hosting the free Webinar as part of its official Veterans Day launch. There is nothing to buy, no pitches. This is an educaitonal web site run by WETA, the PBS station in Washington DC.

To participate in the webinar, send an e-mail to info@brainline.org (subject: Webinar RSVP). You'll receive log-in instructions and reminders before the event.

One of the largest at-risk groups for traumatic brain injury are teens between the ages of 15 and 19. Sports and "extreme" activities are one of the big reasons why.

As former alpine skier and member of the US ski team Leslie LeMasurier just told me, "if there is no blood or no break athletes think they can play through the pain." LeMasurier's skiing career ended in 2005 when she was 19, after her fifth concussion.

Coaches, players and parents all need to be aware of the risks of "toughing it out."

Chris will be joined by BrainLine executive director Noel Gunther who will speak briefly about the BrainLine project. The project is funded by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the primary operational TBI component of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, through a subcontract award with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.

Comments (1)

1. mraccident (38 months ago)

   Interesting topic and views, i'm not one for wearing helmets, i like to feel the wind through my hair, although i do realise that that's not all i'll feel if i bounce but it's a risk i take.