I’ve written a lot about how athletes can avoid injury. So far, I’ve said nothing about those sports where harm is the goal.

Today a new study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine looks at boxing and mixed martial arts and comes to an unsurprising conclusion: The more you fight, the more you hurt your brain.

But the details matter. The researchers found that boxers fare worse than mixed martial arts participants. And they are hoping their work can give fighters some idea of how much combat causes how much damage. Continue reading Martial Arts Linked to Brain Damage →