PITTSBURGH — Dr. Joseph Maroon, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ neurosurgeon and consultant of the NFL’s Head, Neck and Spine Committee, appeared on NFL Network Tuesday to talk about chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
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Maroon, a board-certified clinical professor of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, acknowledged there's room for improvement.
Maroon says he believes long-term neurological damage from hits to the head is over-exaggerated.
"I think the problem of CTE, although real, it's being over-exaggerated and it's being extrapolated to youth football and to high school football," Maroon said on Tuesday's "NFL Total Access."
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