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We need to learn to listen to our young athletes

Des Moines Register - Opinion Piece

August 13, 2011

Being surrounded by experts is a great privilege of a college president. With the prevention and treatment of concussions in recent sports news, the end of the NFL lockout and the high school and college fall sports seasons upon us, I sought out assistant athletic trainer, clinical instructor and associate professor of exercise science Leslie Duinink. I expected to receive a physiological analysis of concussions but instead heard an impassioned plea from one who spends an incredible amount of time with injured athletes.

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