NFL Responds to Report of Flawed Concussion Data in Past Research

March 24, 2016   ·   Mike Chiari   ·   Jump to comments

As the NFL continues to take steps toward concussion prevention and treatment, a new report alleged that the league's past data regarding head injuries is incomplete.
According to Alan Schwarz, Walt Bogdanich and Jacqueline Williams of the New York Times, confidential data suggests that more than 10 percent of concussions that occurred from 1996 to 2001 were not included in studies, which made the NFL's concussion issue seem less significant than it really was.
The league admitted that not every team submitted full data, since teams were not required to, but insisted it wasn't part of a conscious effort to alter the statistics.
Per the Times report, NFL concussion committee member Dr. Joseph Waeckerle took great issue with the inconsistency in past concussion research: "If somebody made a human error or somebody assumed the data was absolutely correct and didn't question it, well, we screwed up. If we found it wasn't accurate and still used it, that's not a screw-up; tha...

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