Table of Contents
Introduction: Why I Wrote this Book
Part I: Youth Sports: The Wins and the Losses
Chapter 1: Why We Should Care About Repeated Brain Trauma in Youth Sports
Chapter 2: How Youth Sports Can Provide a Lifetime of Benefits
Chapter 3: Why Sports Culture Needs a Transformation
Part II: The Science: What We Know About Repetitive Brain Trauma in Sports
Chapter 4: Why Kids Really Do Hit That Hard (At Least That’s What Their Brain Feels)
Chapter 5: Why the Young Brain is Vulnerable
Chapter 6: Why It’s Not All About Concussions
Chapter 7: Why Head Impacts in Youth Sports May Be Disrupting Brain Development
Chapter 8: Why CTE is More Than an NFL Problem, and What it Means for Youth Sports
Part III: Bad Arguments for Maintaining the Status Quo in Youth Sports
Chapter 9: Why the Argument that Other Sports are Dangerous, too, is a Bad One
Chapter 10: Why Helmets and Other Technology Won’t Solve the Problem
Chapter 11: Why Safer Than Ever May Not Be Safe Enough
Chapter 12: Why You Don’t Have to Hit at a Young Age to Be a Superstar
Chapter 13: Why the Benefits of Sports Can Be Gained Without Repetitive Brain Trauma
Part IV: The Future of Youth Sports
Chapter 14: How We Can Change Contact Sports to Protect Children’s Brains
Chapter 15: What Families and Athletes Can Do to Stay Safe in Youth Sports
Chapter 16: What You Can Do to Improve the Safety of Youth Sports in Your Community
Conclusion: How much do we have to know and how bad do the risks have to be?
Bibliography
Notes
About the Author