Head Games: The Global Concussion Crisis
- ISBN-10
- 0991662229
- ISBN-13
- 9780991662227
- Series
- Head Games
- Category
- Brain
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Christopher Nowinski
Description
"Chris Nowinsky tells his remarkable story - how a former Ivy League football player and WWE wrestler fought the NFL and turned his post-concussion syndrome into a successful crusade that has made concussions one of the most important public health issues of our time. Nowinsky tells the insider story as to how concussions went from a joke to the front page, and reveals how a small group of people outmaneuvered powerful entrenched interests to expose a problem that will never again be called a silent epidemic"--
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