By now it has become clear that the tackles we cheer rend not just ligaments but brain cells from brain cells, causing life-long damage.
We know that sexual abuse can cause life-long damage if children are never able to disclose their suffering, so they are never protected and made safe.
Lest this sound too cosy, the findings of neuroscience are increasingly supporting this view and attachment theory research gives us information about the many ways in which disrupted early bonds cause life-long damage.
Without those treatments, it can do serious, life-long damage, sterilizing men and women and causing pregnancies to develop outside the womb.
The thing about septic workplaces is that, like a particularly bad cult, they take over your mind, they destroy your confidence, and thus they have the power to inflict life-long damage on your career, and by extension, your personal life.
Stunting begins during pregnancy, results in life-long damage and may be passed onto the next generation.
Poverty causes life-long damage to children's minds and bodies, which ensures that poverty will be passed on to their children - thereby perpetuating the cycle.
The first 1000 days between the start of pregnancy and a child's second birthday is a critical window of opportunity to prevent the irreversible and life-long damage caused by malnutrition, including stunting and impaired cognitive development.
The long term damage is not to the BBC, whose self-confidence has returned.
