Sentences with phrase «football damages your brain»

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Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

Jackson's memoir and other recent books don't just deliver the hard facts on football - induced brain and body damage.

This young boy suffered severe brain damage from hitting a rock head first and will have to wear a football helmet and drool cup for the remainder of his life.

After years of mounting evidence, the NFL is finally admitting to the link between football and brain damage.

Still, the most critical issue is potential brain damage, and before all this information became available (despite the best efforts of the NCAA and NFL) in the past few years, I would have most likely allowed my son (if I had had one) to play football.

I'm all ready to play football but my mom read something in the paper about CTE and brain damage, and now she says she won't let me play.

The study she read about concluded that 15 percent of those who played only high school football had brain damage associated with CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy).

So how many professional football players have suffered brain damage?

Former Arsenal striker Alan Smith insists football has to face up to the potential threat of long - term brain damage to players and welcomed the advancement of further investigation.

Brain damage in American Football Inevitable consequence or avoidable risk?

While I congratulate the NFL on tackling the issue of its players» health and safety head on, there is no denying the fact that we are never going to see a non-violent game of football, or one from which the risk of permanent brain damage is completely eliminated (the touching pre-game feature on former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason's battle with ALS was proof enough of that).

Perhaps most concerning, four of the Purdue studies found that damage to the brain from RHI persisted after the football season was over, as did a 2014 study by Bazarian and his URMC colleagues, [23] which found changes in brain white matter in a small group of college football players which persisted six months after the season was over.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

However, in the fifth film set in the 1920 - 30s, the Dark Side is still present as scientists and doctors continued record brain damage in football players» and boxers» head injuries using terms like «Punch Drink,» Dementia pugilistica, and even CTE (Yes, the term was used before Omalu was even born).

Football might be synonymous with impact, but such technology combined with the measures and changes being passed throughout the country will decrease the risk of serious, perhaps permanent, brain damage to athletes while enabling them to keep on playing the sport they love.

But a study this year dealt one of the hardest hits yet to the sport, detailing the extensive damage in football players» brains, and not just those who played professionally.

ALTHOUGH A BRAIN INJURY from a car accident or a collision during a football game often seems to cause a sudden change to cognitive ability years later, this change does not just appear out of the blue — the damage has been building up slowly, unnoticed, over time.

American professional football and ice hockey have been in the public limelight for the possible long - term brain damage done by repeated head impacts sustained in both sports.

As football players are learning, a violent blow to the head has the potential to cause mild to severe traumatic brain injury — physical damage to the brain that can be debilitating, even fatal.

If scientists better understand how the brain moves after an impact and what movement causes the most damage, Kurt said, «we can design better helmets, we can devise technologies that can do onsite diagnostics, for example in football, and potentially make sideline decisions in real time,» all of which could improve outcomes for those who take a nasty hit to the head.

«Call for more research on brain damage in American football.»

He was discussing how the league could donate $ 1 million or more to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, whose discoveries of brain damage commonly associated with boxers in the brains of deceased football players were regularly discredited by the N.F.L.

According to forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh, an autopsy after his death revealed that Waters» brain had suffered so much damage from football injuries that it resembled that of an 85 - year - old man with early stage Alzheimer's disease.

The authors suggest that if the findings apply to humans, this could help prevent brain damage from accidents, and protect players of contact sports like American football, rugby and boxing.

By comparing the new results with the baseline scores recorded just before the draft, the doctors will get a clearer sense of how badly the football players have damaged their brains and what degree of caution to take during recovery.

Long before the head - cracking collisions that damage the brains of football players (SN: 6/14/14, p. 12), people were sustaining head hits in other ways, the researchers note.

Boxing and American football are under scrutiny because of head injuries causing long - term damage to the brain, but the situation is much less clear for football where heading is extremely common, but head injuries are less so.

Researchers from UCL and Swansea have been investigating the results of autopsies from a small number of retired professional footballers with dementia in an effort to determine whether their brains showed distinct damage compared to other typical dementia patients.

WHAT: When Nigerian - born pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith) uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who have suffered repeated concussions, he publishes his findings in the hope that it will help save lives.

Based on the GQ article that first exposed the issue of former NFL players literally losing their minds, and their lives, due to brain damage suffered from playing football their entire lives, «Concussion» begins in Pittsburgh in 2002, with Omalu working in a local hospital.

Highly decorated pathologist and immigrant from Africa, Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith) makes a horrific discovery as to the impact of brain damage sustained by football players who suffer repeated concussions while playing the game.

The study of traumatic brain injury in football players could ultimately help accident victims successfully sue for damages, says Hamilton personal injury lawyer Andrew... Read more

Could a football player who suffers brain damage from repetitive concussions caused by a style of play that is encouraged and enabled by the modern helmet sue the helmet manufacturer and win under Massachusetts law?

About this blog About my company, Brazen Careerist Penelopes guide to starting a blog Check - up for self - delusion Posted to: Diversity Self - management Women February 7th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook It's unbelievable to me that everyone continues to watch football when we know that men are getting genuinely, permanently, brain damaged.