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It starts with a hit. Maybe a tackle in a high school football game. Maybe a blast wave during military service. The damage ...
Concussion in sport continues to make headlines, whether it be class actions, young men flocking to the highly violent "RunIt ...
Contact sports are becoming increasingly popular in Africa, raising concern about the risk of chronic traumatic ...
If more isn’t done to combat concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, more families will be grieving tragic deaths.
Dozens of widows and other caregivers for former NFL players diagnosed with CTE say a published study is insulting and ...
It didn’t change the symptoms.” The study published last month asked 172 caregivers for current and former professional football players “whether they believed their partner had ‘CTE.’” ...
An autopsy study of a 45-year-old former U.S. Navy crewman with severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) suggested that ...
Although CTE can't be diagnosed in the living, doctors can often recognize a condition known as traumatic encephalopathy syndrome, which carries many of the same symptoms. These include: ...