#64 - Sleep and the Gridiron: Your Country Needs You To Play Football

Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter

It's that time of the year again...football season. With the excitement building as rivalries renew both at the collegiate and professional level, it seems an appropriate time to look at the sleep through the lens of the sport of American football. In this episode we will:

• Preface the episode by considering the first athletic trainer in history, James Robinson of Harvard
• Explore some of the early research looking as sleep and football player/team performance
• Dissect the controversy regarding the actual risk of sleep disordered breathing in American football players
• Differentiate the differences between professional football sleep and collegiate sleep both in and out of season
• Touch upon the evidence for increased injury in underslept players
• Look ahead to innovative programs designed to manage the sleep of football players both active and retired

Produced by: Maeve Winter
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