Medical experts review Power Slap dangers and reply to Dana White calling their research 'attention-seeking'
Since its debut in January 2023, Dana White's Power Slap has faced significant scrutiny, along with growing medical research aimed at understanding and assessing the risks of participation.
Dr Agarwal added that he initially knew nothing about slap fighting, but was "horrified" when he found out, and aims to use the research to spread public awareness of the dangers."And when I look into it, I was horrified because we're promoting actually just slapping each other without any self defense," Dr Agarwal remarked. "I thought, horrified, comical.
"... If you get hit, you got 60 seconds to recover and get back up so you can get hit again. Forget about the second impact syndrome. We're looking at a third, fourth, fifth. How many repetitive hits before we get some attention to make this safer? And quite frankly, I'm not even sure you can make it safer."The team acknowledged in their study that it has "certain limitations," primarily due to using video analysis which could be perceived as subjective.
"... I think participants are curious about the impacts even if they don't believe there are any, I think they are curious about and also their own health. So yeah, I would invite anybody who would like to obtain more information in the interest of safety to collaborate with us for sure."by a reporter about the team's analysis.
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