a lot science/medicine still don't know about CTE.
In a small sample the guy who tested NFL players brains and reported 96% had CTE came back with 100% of the NHL players brains tested had CTE (in the small sample)
I'm not saying they do or don't or if the do what the impact is or how to know which player will have symptoms vs which one won't. I'm obviously not medically qualified to even guess or have an opinion.
I am interested in this for my own selfish reasons obviously I did not play in the NHL or pro hockey at all, but playing from the time I was 5 from youth hockey to high school to college, until now still playing in my 40's I've played over 5,000 hockey games, probably 10,000 practices and countless hits, many to the head - even in no-check men's league. what would my brain show for CTE?
We need to learn a lot more about this topic and the leagues should be pouring more money into it from a research standpoint, not a CYA standpoint.
Still far too little is known about CTE. Obviously preventing head/brain injury is important in impact sports, but I think we're decades away from knowing if CTE is truly more prominent in football than the general population
You seriously have to wonder about the future of football. Â
How do you maintain a sport that's built on humans crashing into each other? Institute automatic retirement protocals for players that have reached a certain amount of playing time for their respective positions? Max number of concussions and you're out? No more tackling, just wrap up the ball carrier? Tackling, but now more slamming into each other? Something has to be done. As we've famously been told, every player on player impact is car crash now.
What if there is evidence that Tyler killed himself Â
because he thought he had CTE and that CTE would lead to further mental decline
And then twenty years from now real science establishes that there is no substantive link between CTE and all the symptoms supposedly associated with it by pseudo-science today. Can we then prosecute these half-baked alarmists for manslaughter?
because he thought he had CTE and that CTE would lead to further mental decline
And then twenty years from now real science establishes that there is no substantive link between CTE and all the symptoms supposedly associated with it by pseudo-science today. Can we then prosecute these half-baked alarmists for manslaughter?
Is how prevalent CTE is outside of football. We’ve seen links to soccer and hockey. To the degree that it’s far more common across many different disciplines this lessens the relative risks associated with football. Is this something that all humans experience to varying degrees through the course of their lives (honest question)? So far almost all the tests asses former football players.
is somewhat vitiated by the overwhelming pattern of findings.
What do you mean? What is the pattern of findings?
100% of NFL brains tested show CTE, but not 100% of players have any symptoms.
they just don't know enough yet other than yes, repeated blows to the head can cause life long damage (seemed obvious, no? just no one knows who, how, when, what, etc). The details of "can" or how the damage will manifest itself seems elusive. In the boxing world they called this punch drunk. It's been known since boxing history from what I know.
They need to study this more, and instead of making contact sport athletes into modern day gladiators they should also take more of an interest in their futures.
In the Stanley Cup playoffs I saw multiple players who were very likely concussed (in my non-expert opinion) pulled from the game, brought to the "quiet room" and returned to the game. In most instances from what I read the players know how to "game the system".
People interested in this topic should read up about Paul Kariya some time. scary shit.
The consequences of football aren’t serious. They are grave. But does eliminating football eliminate CTE?
CTE has been tied to head/brain trauma. not just athletes. military, survivors of domestic violence, autistic people who have a tendency to bang their heads, epilepsy victims, etc. but it has been proven (I believe) to be tied to repeated blows to the head.
Is how prevalent CTE is outside of football. We’ve seen links to soccer and hockey. To the degree that it’s far more common across many different disciplines this lessens the relative risks associated with football. Is this something that all humans experience to varying degrees through the course of their lives (honest question)? So far almost all the tests asses former football players.
Great points. They really need to start observ8g the brains of deceased who did not play football to see if they have CTE as well, and at what percentage
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In a small sample the guy who tested NFL players brains and reported 96% had CTE came back with 100% of the NHL players brains tested had CTE (in the small sample)
I'm not saying they do or don't or if the do what the impact is or how to know which player will have symptoms vs which one won't. I'm obviously not medically qualified to even guess or have an opinion.
I am interested in this for my own selfish reasons obviously I did not play in the NHL or pro hockey at all, but playing from the time I was 5 from youth hockey to high school to college, until now still playing in my 40's I've played over 5,000 hockey games, probably 10,000 practices and countless hits, many to the head - even in no-check men's league. what would my brain show for CTE?
We need to learn a lot more about this topic and the leagues should be pouring more money into it from a research standpoint, not a CYA standpoint.
It should be in the NFL and NHL CBA's.
And then twenty years from now real science establishes that there is no substantive link between CTE and all the symptoms supposedly associated with it by pseudo-science today. Can we then prosecute these half-baked alarmists for manslaughter?
And then twenty years from now real science establishes that there is no substantive link between CTE and all the symptoms supposedly associated with it by pseudo-science today. Can we then prosecute these half-baked alarmists for manslaughter?
This is some take, alright.
What do you mean? What is the pattern of findings?
100% of NFL brains tested show CTE, but not 100% of players have any symptoms.
they just don't know enough yet other than yes, repeated blows to the head can cause life long damage (seemed obvious, no? just no one knows who, how, when, what, etc). The details of "can" or how the damage will manifest itself seems elusive. In the boxing world they called this punch drunk. It's been known since boxing history from what I know.
They need to study this more, and instead of making contact sport athletes into modern day gladiators they should also take more of an interest in their futures.
In the Stanley Cup playoffs I saw multiple players who were very likely concussed (in my non-expert opinion) pulled from the game, brought to the "quiet room" and returned to the game. In most instances from what I read the players know how to "game the system".
People interested in this topic should read up about Paul Kariya some time. scary shit.
CTE has been tied to head/brain trauma. not just athletes. military, survivors of domestic violence, autistic people who have a tendency to bang their heads, epilepsy victims, etc. but it has been proven (I believe) to be tied to repeated blows to the head.
Great points. They really need to start observ8g the brains of deceased who did not play football to see if they have CTE as well, and at what percentage
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