[3] Maroon has conducted extensive research into neurotrauma, brain tumors, and diseases of the spine, which led to many innovative techniques for diagnosing and treating these disorders.
[4] Maroon et al. published the simplified instrumentation for performing microvascular surgery in 1973, and in 1975, they pioneered the microsurgical approach to intra-orbital tumors.
In the same year, Maroon published the first paper on “burning hands” syndrome related to sports-related spinal cord injuries in JAMA.
[7] In 1985, they were the first to compare microsurgical disc removal with chemonucleolysis[8] and in 1986, they were the first to use a carbon dioxide laser in the management of lymphangiomas of the orbit.
[10] In 1987, Maroon and Onik introduced percutaneous automated discectomy as a new minimally invasive way to remove lumbar discs and subsequently published extensively on this technique.
[16] Further groundbreaking publications include the use of fish oil as an anti-inflammatory and alternative to nonsteroidal drugs for discogenic pain (2006);[17] a unifying, immunoexcitotoxicity hypothesis for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (2011);[18] and the possible use of a restricted calorie ketogenic diet for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (2013).
His position has mostly been met with negative comments across the media and sports press due to the NFL having as many as 4500 former players reporting symptoms of CTE.
[41] In the movie, Maroon is portrayed as an NFL-biased doctor who tries to deny any relationship between football concussions and the brain pathology that Dr. Bennet Omalu found and attributed to CTE.
(2008) ISBN 9781416565161 (made into a PBS Special) Fish Oil: The Natural Anti-Inflammatory[49] Maroon JC, Bost J.
(2006) ISBN 9781591201823 Practice Diagnosis and Management of Orbital Disease[50] Kennerdell JS, Cockerham KP, Maroon JC, Rothfus WE.