Study: Football Practices Pose Greatest Concussion Risk

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College football players sustained far more concussions in practice than they did during games, according to a study released Monday.

Published in JAMA Neurology, a peer-reviewed journal, the study found that 72 percent of the concussions medical researchers reviewed over five college football seasons happened during practice, according to The New York Times. And although preseason training accounted for about one-fifth of the time the researchers studied, they found that nearly half of the concussions occurred during that period.

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