In 1974, NORM BULAICH WAS TOLD TO REST AFTER A CONCUSSION

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“I kept on getting pain going into my neck,” Bulaich said in a telephone interview from his home in Hurst, Texas. “But, basically, I felt fine. The doctor at Duke said a concussion was like a bruise. If you don’t rest it, you’ll keep hurting the bruise.” That was back in 1974 at Duke University Hospital in North Carolina. 26 years later in 2010, Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, co-chairman of the NFL’s Head, Neck and Spine Committee told congress that “doctors were relatively ineffectual for 25 years on this issue.”