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Bryant,cnbattachment a minister in Gordon Brown's Government and now Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform, said: 'I spoke with a leading neuropathologist who works with the New York Jets this week and she's amazed that Britain seems to be 15 years behind America on this. The danger now is that people will end up having to sue and they will end up having massive pay-outs which could cripple some sports.'My fear is that some of the sports are just putting their head in the sand and there is a point when that just becomes criminal negligence. It's no good one sport sorting it out, we need to get all sports on board to change the whole culture.'One person has said to me "It's all right because the ball is much lighter these days". But the truth is they don't know what headers do to people.'The issue of head injuries in sport has drawn global attention following research on former American Footballers at Boston University and last year's $765million pay-out to former American footballers suffering early on-set dementipaper ballsa by the National Football League.nike shox shoes 
Other research projects - on 7,000 professional footballers completed eight years ago at Turin University and another at New York's Albert Einstein University looking at the effects of heading footballs last year - appear to show a direct link between repeated concussions,party supplies or sub-concussive blows, and early on-set dementia.But concussion expert Professor David Dodick, of the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, says more needs to be done to explore possible links between head injuries and contact sports in Britain.He said: 'When you consider that the Turin research was published eight years ago, it is shocking more hasn't been done to investigate this.wholesale Coach Grade Sunglasses sale from www.gotoptrade.com homepage. Were it not related to professional sports, this would have been explored in depth by now but it's not surprising given the level of secrecy which surrounds and shrouds professional sports.'