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shakeel8 asked Vivienne Nathanson : "Recent media reports highlight both childhood obesity and growing disinterest in sports among teenage girls as major health concerns. Given that there is no real evidence to show that amateur boxing ..." Show more »"Recent media reports highlight both childhood obesity and growing disinterest in sports among teenage girls as major health concerns. Given that there is no real evidence to show that amateur boxing can cause long term health problems, if children are interested in taking this up as a sport wouldn’t the advantages of being active outweigh the disadvantages of minor injuries? " Show less »
Vivienne Nathanson answers: "Obesity is an increasingly significant problem in the UK and efforts should be made to encourage interest in sport and being active. But boxing has its own significant risks to health, and as such concerted..." Show more»" Obesity is an increasingly significant problem in the UK and efforts should be made to encourage interest in sport and being active. But boxing has its own significant risks to health, and as such concerted effort should go into advertising and raising participation in other sports, where inflicting pain and injury is not the objective. Although there is less evidence of long-term health problems in amateur boxing, that does not mean there is no risk. Evidence suggests that like their professional counterparts, amateur boxers are affected by chronic brain injury, albeit to a lesser extent. The use of headgear in amateur boxing is often promotes as preventing brain injury, when in fact it only prevents superficial head damage. This could mean that boxers receive more damage to their brain than they would otherwise, for example a fight continuing to knockout, which may have been stopped earlier due to other superficial head injuries. There is also the possibility that head guards could increase the injury by presenting more angled edges to blows which then produce the classical boxing rotational acceleration effect. The only way to prevent brain damage in boxing is to either ban boxing entirely or ban blows to the head. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Sport | Email to friends | Dec 14 2007 9:23:00 AM

shakeel8 asked Vivienne Nathanson : "The BMA states that it is morally unacceptable in our society to promote a sport which aims to inflict brain damage on an opponent, especially in regards to children. However both the Police community..." Show more »"The BMA states that it is morally unacceptable in our society to promote a sport which aims to inflict brain damage on an opponent, especially in regards to children. However both the Police community clubs and the Amateur boxing Association run youth programmes to promote social inclusion in deprived areas. Isn’t it better for kids to be channelling their energies into boxing and get a few cuts and scrapes rather than being prey to the gun culture and violence so often reported in some poorer areas of the UK?" Show less »
Vivienne Nathanson answers: "Children’s boxing is sometimes defended on the grounds that they learn to work through their aggression with discipline. The BMA believes there are many other sports, including athletics, swimming, judo..." Show more»" Children’s boxing is sometimes defended on the grounds that they learn to work through their aggression with discipline. The BMA believes there are many other sports, including athletics, swimming, judo and football, which require discipline but do not pose the same threat of brain injury. While young boxers do not have as powerful a punch as mature boxers, some studies have found that young boxers exhibit early evidence of brain damage. This danger was highlighted in 1987 by the death of 15-year-old amateur boxer Joseph Strickland, due to acute brain injury. The BMA believes that the government should give more consideration to the provision of alternative leisure facilities for the young, particularly in deprived areas. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Sport | Email to friends | Dec 14 2007 9:22:18 AM

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