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Studie visar att boxning farligare för hjärnan än MMA

Neurologen Charles Bernick har under fyra år ledit en studie som kallas ”Professional Fighter Brain Health Study”. Man har nu länkat ett ökat antal upprepade slag mot huvudet bidrar till att hjärnans volym minskar och att man drabbas av fler negativa kognitiva effekter, vilket gör att hjärnan får svårare att behandla information.

Det här berättar Bernick, via ”Yahoo Sports”:

Boxers come out worse. We’re seeing more shrinkage in boxers in these particular structures we’re looking at on the MRI. What does that mean? Does it mean that boxers are sustaining more trauma or are boxers just different in general? A lot more MMA guys are college educated. They come, in a lot of cases, from different socio-economic backgrounds than the boxers.

We can’t pinpoint the cause for this, though just off the top of your head you’d say, ’Yeah, it’s because [boxers] get hit in the head more.’ If you look at these statistics services like CompuBox and [CompuStrike], it’s clear that boxers are being hit more than MMA guys in the same weight classes. So is the answer simply, ’They get hit more?’ Whether that’s the only factor, though, I don’t know. But yes, boxers come out worse.

Perhaps the most obvious explanation is that boxers get hit in the head more. In addition to trying to concuss (i.e. knock out) their opponent, martial arts fighters can utilize other combat skills such as wrestling and jiu jitsu to win their match by submission without causing a concussion.

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