Concussion seminar featuring Ex-49ers QB Steve Young seeks to shed light in ... - San Jose Mercury News

Steve Young remembers. That much was established Tuesday night at Menlo School in Atherton during a community-based concussion conference in which the Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback acted as the keynote speaker. "I was playing at a time where I started in the early '80s, where someone would have a concussion and they couldn't walk straight or they were acting funny and it was actually comedic," Young, 53, told the audience seated inside Menlo School's... Young, who led the San Francisco 49ers to a Super Bowl in 1995 and retired in 1999 with no long-term effects of brain trauma, considers his concussions to be of the "vanilla" variety. It's a subject that has produced public outcry among parents, including Menlo School Athletic Director Kris Weems. "I'm a new parent, I have a 1-year-old," said Weems, who played men's basketball at Stanford and admitted to sustaining a couple of concussions. Instead of pushing the panic button on the concussion topic, Jon Cohen, the athletic trainer at Menlo School since 2007, assembled a panel featuring some of the nation's foremost experts -- in association with the Stanford Concussion and Brain... "We have no idea how many concussions are reported every year," said Cohen, who notes that estimates are at the moment elusive. Source: www.mercurynews.com