A headline from earlier this summer may initially have seemed to provide comfort to the MMA community, when a study published by the Canadian Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine (h/t Erik Magraken and the Combat Sports Law blog) found that boxers were at higher risk of sustaining concussions and other head injuries than MMA fighters.
"Boxers are more likely [than MMA fighters] to experience serious injury such as concussion/head trauma involving loss of consciousness or eye injury such as retinal detachment," wrote the authors, who were led by Dr. Shelby Karpman, a sports and exercise physician at the University of Alberta.