THE HILL — President Obama said Thursday that he may have suffered from mild concussions while playing football in his childhood.
“When I was young and played football briefly, there were a couple times where I’m sure that that ringing sensation in my head and the needing to sit down for a while might have been a mild concussion, and at the time you didn’t think anything of it,” Obama said at a White House event designed to highlight the risks of sports-related brain injuries.
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Obama said his experience was common and underscored the need to “change the culture” around concussion injuries in sports, in which athletes are told to “just suck it up.”
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