(The Palm Beach Post) – Palm Beach County public schools started their new school year Aug. 11 — and that means high school football season can’t be far behind.
Florida (along with California and Texas) is among the most football-talent-laden states in the nation. And with such elite and fierce competition at both the youth and interscholastic levels, these young athletes are, of course, at risk of suffering a host of injuries.
Among the most serious — and potentially life-altering: concussions and cumulative sub-concussive trauma to the brain. CONTINUE