Concussions and Our Kids: America’s Leading Expert on How to Protect Young Athletes and Keep Sports Safe.”<\/a><\/p>\nCantu is a clinical professor for the Department of Neurosurgery and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University’s school of Medicine. He is also senior advisor to the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee.<\/p>\n
Cantu has made numerous contributions to sport safety; most notably influencing football rule changes concerning tackling and blocking with the head, the establishment of football helmet standards, improved on-the-field medical care, and coaching techniques.<\/p>\n
As a spokesperson for the American College Sports Medicine, Cantu has participated in nationally televised sports programs such as ESPN, Larry King Live, CBS, NBC and ABC evening news, NPR and more.<\/p>\n
In this segment, Stevoe and Cantu discuss the science of concussions, thoughts on boxing and ways to make sports more safe. Cantu also offers tips to help parents better diagnose post-concussion symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a show that aired Saturday, September 29, host Stevoe talks with Maine State Chamber of Commerce President Dana Connors and leading athletic brain trauma expert and author Dr. Robert Cantu. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}