One of the NFL's most influential agents for years, Leigh Steinberg is now aiming to support emerging approaches for head ...
The NFL has to be feeling good about the work it's done to help curb the rate of concussions for its players, but the work is ...
But now in hindsight, I understand that he was suffering from the symptoms of CTE due to the repeated trauma his brain and body endured over 11 seasons in the NFL. My father put his body on the ...
NFL players were found to have sustained 182 brain injuries during the season, including practices, and preseason and regular ...
Frank Wycheck was diagnosed with CTE just over a year after the former Titans star's death at the age of 52, his family ...
Families of deceased NFL players pushed an appeals court to reverse a federal court's decision that they must dig up and diagnose the players with CTE to qualify for the NFL's concussion settlement.
A 2017 study conducted by the Boston University CTE Center concluded that the brains of 99% of former NFL players had at least trace amounts of the neurodegenerative disease. Researchers studied ...
"Our family is grateful to learn of his confirmed CTE diagnosis in hopes to continue our father's desire to bring awareness, increased intervention, education, and support for NFL alumni and their ...
The family of late NFL tight end Frank Wycheck confirmed he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at the time of his death 13 months ago, per ESPN. CTE is a degenerative brain ...
After retirement, he fought for years to bring light to his post-NFL journey and the fears he had around his struggles and symptoms that he knew whole-heartedly was CTE. He often felt forgotten ...
In a statement, Deanna Wycheck Szabo said that she hoped the CTE diagnosis for her father would “bring awareness, increased intervention, education, and support for NFL alumni and their families ...