The growing concern for head trauma in contact sports has put pressure on professional leagues like the NFL and NHL to submit to changes. Changes to rules and how the game is played in order to protect the players. At the NCAA level, the hope is to teach players still in the development stage of their career.
Dan Fischer, assistant athletic director for sports medicine at BGSU, has seen his job change over the past couple of years. The amount of information being brought to the scene has increased since Fischer was a student.
“How we return athletes to play and to learn (has changed).