17 year old football player dies of concussion

A seventeen year old boy (Nathan Stiles) past away after getting a life threatening concussion. Nathan died playing football. His autopsy revealed that he died of second-impact syndrome. (when a player is hit again before the brain has had a chance to heal from an initial concussion) After being cleared from a doctor that he was just fine after one concussion, he went back for the last game. After intercepting and making a touch down he was hit pretty hard in the head and when he got back to the bench his friends noticed something was not right.Read the article!http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/27/health/big-hits-broken-dreams-brain-bank/index.html?hpt=hp_c2the compatiblity view wont work :/

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3Allan January 31, 2012 at 9:36am

Thats terible how did he get cleared to play.
2Bree January 31, 2012 at 9:16am

That's really sad. They shouldn't have let him keep on playing, he should have had to sit out for a game.
5zachg January 30, 2012 at 2:58pm

thats really sad. i think they should hae made him sit out another game
3Julie January 30, 2012 at 2:45pm

That's sad:( That makes me scared for anyone to play football. They might die too. I'm glad my brothers never got concussions when they played football in high school

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