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Dr. Bob Cantu's new book, Concussions and Our Kids: America's Leading Expert on How To Protect Young Athletes and Keep Sports Safe, which he co-authored with sports journalist Mark Hyman, is just the latest in a slew of concussion books that I have read and reviewed over the past couple of years. While it has much to recommend it, I ultimately came away from reading the book disappointed at several glaring pieces of advice it gives that seem to ignore critical changes in the thinking of concussion experts over the past decade, including some from Dr. Cantu himself.
Author:
Robert C. Cantu, M.D. and Mark Hyman
About a month ago the folks at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt sent me a review copy of Dr. Bob Cantu's new book, Concussions and Our Kids: America's Leading Expert on How To Protect Young Athletes and Keep Sports Safe, which launched today and which he co-authored with sports journalist Mark Hyman. I took it to read on the short train ride from Boston to New York the very next day, and was able to finish it before the train pulled into Penn Station.
While it has much to recommend it, the book is marred by several pieces of advice it gives - or omits to give - that seem to ignore critical changes in the thinking of concussion experts over the past decade, including some from Dr. Cantu himself.
