In the last decade medical professionals have warned football and hockey coaches and those of every contact sport of the dangers of concussions and brain damage.
Medical imaging devices are coming close to providing indisputable evidence that players of these sports and others, routinely suffer serious concussions during games and continue playing.
Sadly, even the best helmets are not providing enough protection to athletes from the pee wee ranks to the pros.
Tony Proudfoot who played for nearly a decade in the seventies and eighties in the CFL is near deathfrom Lou Gehrig's disease.
Throughout his illness he has strongly spoken out to athletes, young and old about the connection between concussions, head to head contact in sport and neurological diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and other forms of dementia.
