Editorial: Concussion and Sport: A Sociocultural Perspective
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2021
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The Research Topic Concussion and sport: a sociocultural perspective is inextricably tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Partly this relates to timing, as COVID-19 became the topic of conversation through which we (the editorial team) came to forge our working relationship. Editorial meetings invariably began with comparisons of transmission rates, restrictions on social contact and latterly vaccine up-take in our respective parts of the world. But there are deeper parallels, between COVID-19 and brain injury in sport as public health issues. In this article we draw attention to these parallels as a way of introducing some key sociocultural aspects of concussion in sport as a public health crisis.
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© 2021 Malcolm, Doherty, Sanderson and Bachynski. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Concussion, Public Health, Brain Injury, Sociology Discipline, Management
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Malcolm D, Doherty A, Sanderson J and Bachynski K (2021) Editorial: Concussion and Sport: A Sociocultural Perspective. Front. Sports Act. Living 3:754002. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2021.754002