Raizner Slania represents many clients in concussion-related lawsuits against the NCAA, universities, and athletic conferences. We represent former student athletes, primarily college football players, suffering from brain injury conditions including CTE, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and more. ...
suicide or homicide. The majority of people who develop these issues are athletes who participate in popular high-impact sports, especially football. Although new sports regulations and improvements in helmet technology can help protect players, amateur . 在特殊情况下,遭受CTE的人们甚而做了自杀或杀人...
Researchers say football players with symptoms need to talk to their doctors and know that the glory days in the NFL shouldn't end with suffering in silence. Doctors hope the research will eventually lead to a way to diagnose CTE while people are still alive. The study was funded in part ...
“Researchers discovered the single factor that best determined whether players would develop CTE was not how many concussions they suffered, but instead the number of years they played tackle football,” said Christopher Nowinski, a former Harvard football player who co-founded The Concussion Legacy ...
CTE diagnosis was independently confirmed by another neuropathologist, Daniel Perl, MD, professor of pathology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. McKee has now diagnosed CTE in 12 of 13 formerprofessional football players, as well as amateur football players, professional boxers,...
Jeff Astle was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) - a condition more associated with boxers - when he died aged 59 in 2002 and was confirmed in 2014 as thefirst British footballer to die as a result of heading a football. ...
Buffalo Bills players and staff pray for Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin during the first half of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) The harrowing scenes of Damar Hamlin’s on-field collapse after sufferin...
Buffalo Bills players and staff pray for Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin during the first half of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) The harrowing scenes of Damar Hamlin’s on-field collapse after suffering card...
The stunning revelation by doctors in the wake of the death of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry offered a cautionary tale for all football players. Henry, who died last December after falling out of the back of a moving truck, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), degenerative...
Other players had been dismissed from the team after a third concussion, the result of what athletes understood to be a three-strikes-and-you-are-out policy at Syracuse. But he wasn’t prepared for the finality of the moment. Long said team physicianDr. James Tuckertold him he was disqua...