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Children’s high-impact sports can be abuse – experts explain why

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CTE continues to be a serious risk associated with high impact sports, such as boxing, American football and rugby.

Key Points: 
  • CTE continues to be a serious risk associated with high impact sports, such as boxing, American football and rugby.
  • The NFL has paid out almost a million pounds to former players suffering the effects of sport-induced brain trauma.
  • Each additional year of playing impact sports raises the risk of CTE, by as much as 30% in American football.
  • Academic evidence and medical professionals now agree that sport-induced brain trauma leads to degenerative brain disease.

Not suitable for under-18s

  • We are not calling for adult versions of impact sports to be banned and our argument does not apply to sports or activities where brain trauma might occur by accident.
  • For example, heading a football can result in immediate and measurable alterations to brain functioning and longer-term brain diseases, such as CTE.
  • The risk of CTE is far higher in sports such as American football and rugby.

Staying healthy

  • Teams sports can reduce isolation and help players to develop a range of social skills.
  • There are no health benefits of tackling – and there are no health benefits of being struck in the head.
  • Research has shown that incidents of contact during children’s rugby are the cause of cause of 87% of known injuries.

Inability to consent

  • Children are unable to make informed decisions about the long-term risks of these activities.
  • Our research draws on a number of legal positions that support our argument that neither children nor parents on their behalf can consent to sports that require brain trauma as a necessary component of the sport.
  • Some commentators have agreed that while high-impact sports are dangerous, using the term child abuse is a step too far.
  • Read more:
    Sport-induced traumatic brain injury: families reveal the 'hell' of living with the condition


Keith Parry is affiliated with the Concussion Legacy Foundation (UK). Eric Anderson and Gary Turner do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Celebrating the Creative Architects and Visionaries Elevating the Experiential Marketplace: THE XP LAND XLIST JURY

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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
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The search for the best of the best in experiential is officially underway with the launch of the XP Land XLIST Jury, which will recognize the most audacious, forward-thinking creatives in experiential.

Key Points: 
  • The search for the best of the best in experiential is officially underway with the launch of the XP Land XLIST Jury, which will recognize the most audacious, forward-thinking creatives in experiential.
  • Throughout the summer, the Jury will nominate, evaluate and select 10 of the first-ever XP Land XLIST honorees, who will meet specific criteria including having active experiential projects, developing innovative break-throughs, and elevating the experiential industry on the whole.
  • The XP Land XLIST will be announced on XP.land in September — kicking off a season of content that will include a new podcast and a series of events.
  • “We are very much looking forward to the XP Land XLIST kick-off in Montréal,” said Delphine Poux, CMO of C2.