NEW YORK (AP) --Two dozenhigh school football playersdied in recent years from traumatic brain andspinal cord injuries, and the annual death count has been growing slightly, according to a new study. But such deaths remain rare, and are far lower than in decades past. Also, it’s not c...
WASHINGTON, DC — A new study shows that retired National Football League (NFL) players experience more headaches than the general population and suggests their headache and concussion history are associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI). As well, almost all retired players in this small study ...
"Since a leaky BBB is also found in CTE and causes brain dysfunction and degeneration, it now seems that this test could provide the first (and so far the only) evidence forbrain injuryin the players we studied on the Israel football team," says Prof. Alon Friedman, M.D., a neurosurge...
playerssignificanceintroductionThe authors consider research on traumatic brain injury and the long-term effects of repetitive head injuries on football players and soldiers. They mention the introduction of a poster warning players of such effects by the National Football League (NFL) in July 2010. ...
Concussions and other forms of brain injury have become one of the biggest worries in sports from soccer to ice hockey. In America the National Football League, which governs American football, has had to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to brain-damaged players. 从足球到冰球等体育运动...
"So really for the first time in a series of players we have shown that there is evidence that head injury has occurred earlier in their life which presumably has some impact on them developing dementia." Dr David Reynolds from the charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "The causes of dem...
Dr. Gandy performed an experimental PET scan that can detect the tangles in living patients to try to determine if Herman had CTE. He said the results revealed damage on both sides of the hippocampus, and "the best explanation is it's the recurrent head injury." ...
"We're hoping that the biomarkers are actually going to give us a quantity ofinjury, rather than just saying whether this a concussion or not," said Papa. "We can say to these players, 'Yes, I can see you have had an injury because the levels of the biomarkers are elevated, and now...
Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is ...
The study has several limitations, including that it is a skewed sample based on a brain donation program because public awareness of a possible link between repetitive head trauma and CTE may have motivated players and their families with symptoms and signs of brain injury to participate in this...