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Healing Concussions As A Cultural Condition

WUNC News | By Will Michaels,
Frank Stasio
Published March 8, 2016 at 11:55 AM EST
The NCAA reports college athletes suffer more than 10,000 concussions a year.
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The NCAA reports college athletes suffer more than 10,000 concussions a year.
The NCAA reports college athletes suffer more than 10,000 concussions a year.
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The NCAA reports college athletes suffer more than 10,000 concussions a year.

The NCAA reports college athletes suffer more than 10,000 concussions a year, but perhaps more alarming is the fact that about three-quarters of these cases are not reported to coaches or team doctors.

Two public health experts at UNC-Greensboro have received grants from the Department of Defense and NCAA to help encourage these players report their injuries and change the culture of concussions.  A conversation with public health professors Jeff Milroy and David Wyrick

Host Frank Stasio talks with Jeff Milroy and David Wyrick, public health professors at UNC-Greensboro, about changing the culture of concussions.

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Will Michaels
Will Michaels started his professional radio career at WUNC.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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