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Showing posts with label head injuries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label head injuries. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
NFL, Like M.D.'s, Was Slow to Recognize Concussion Risk =Orentlicher & David
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| Professor George W. Conk |
He states, "Brain injury in the NFL has gained the attention of public health authorities who have documented that NFL players die of neurodegenerative disorders at a rate triple the national average. The NFL finds itself and the game on the defensive."
Click here to read the complete blog post: NFL, Like M.D.'s, Was Slow to Recognize Concussion Risk =Orentlicher & David
Read more about "brain concussions" and football
Dec 19, 2012
Football Concussions – An Epidemic Failure of Safety. Story after story is now emerging of the tragedy of head concussions incurred during the sport of football. While the a battle is brewing over jurisdictional issues involving ...
Apr 19, 2010
He remarked that former football players have donated their brains for pathological research concerning CTE and its association with multiple concussions playing the sport. It has been alleged that CTE results in early ...
Monday, December 3, 2012
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy -- Football Injuries
Football players' disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), is again in the news as evidence mounts causally connection contact sport head trauma to the illnesses.
The study included 35 former NFL (National Football League) players and revealed that 34 had CTE before their death. A class action lawsuit is pending by the NFL players for head trauma injuries.
"CTE is clinically associated with symptoms of irritability, impulsivity, aggression, depression, short-term memory loss and heightened suicidality that usually begin 8–10 years after experiencing repetitive mildtraumatic brain injury (McKee et al., 2009). With advancing disease, more severe neurological changes develop that include dementia, gait and speech abnormalities and parkinsonism. In late stages, CTE may be clinically mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease or frontotemporal dementia (Gavett et al., 2010, 2011). A subset of cases with CTE is associated with motor neuron disease (MND) (McKee et al., 2010)."
Read the complete research article: The spectrum of disease in chronic traumatic encephalopathy 10.1093/brain/aws307
The study included 35 former NFL (National Football League) players and revealed that 34 had CTE before their death. A class action lawsuit is pending by the NFL players for head trauma injuries.
"CTE is clinically associated with symptoms of irritability, impulsivity, aggression, depression, short-term memory loss and heightened suicidality that usually begin 8–10 years after experiencing repetitive mildtraumatic brain injury (McKee et al., 2009). With advancing disease, more severe neurological changes develop that include dementia, gait and speech abnormalities and parkinsonism. In late stages, CTE may be clinically mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease or frontotemporal dementia (Gavett et al., 2010, 2011). A subset of cases with CTE is associated with motor neuron disease (MND) (McKee et al., 2010)."
Read the complete research article: The spectrum of disease in chronic traumatic encephalopathy 10.1093/brain/aws307
Read more about "football player injuries"
Apr 19, 2010
Football, the sport of humans clashing heads together, is now subject to a growing wave of workers' compensation claims for dementia. Recent studies have shown that football players have suffered head injuries as a result of ...
Mar 07, 2011
A Maryland Court of Appeals has awarded workers' compensation benefits to Tom Tupa, a Washington Redskins football payer. He was injured while warming-up for a football game to be played at FedEx Field in Landover, ...
Nov 20, 2011
Wayne Hills varsity football coach Chris Olsen, proving that winning games is more important to him than teaching life lessons, defended nine players charged in the brutal beating of two Wayne Valley students. Actually, Olsen ...
Sep 23, 2011
Most people know that football is dangerous. We see reports of NFL players with every kind of gruesome injury imaginable. Even suicidal depression, it turns out, is a potential hazard of playing football. Of course playing in the ...
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