Worryingly, McKee's research suggests that even multiple mild blows that don't
cause symptoms of concussion may be enough to trigger CTE.
Not exact matches
I wanted to ask them for their reaction to a recent survey
of college athletes in contact and collision sports at the University
of Pennsylvania which found that, despite being educated about the dangers
of continuing to play with
concussion symptoms, most are still very reluctant to report
symptoms because they want to stay in the game, and to comment on reports that the N.F.L. players» union was against putting sensors in helmets that would alert the sideline to hits
of a sufficient magnitude to
cause concussion, which may be the technological solution (or, in football parlance «end - around») to the chronic under - reporting problem.
Mild traumatic brain injuries, or
concussions,
cause a variety
of temporary
symptoms, including headache, nausea, and memory loss.
All too often, even hits hard enough to
cause an athlete to display signs
of concussion that can be observed by sideline personnel, or which
cause the athlete to experience
symptoms of concussion, go undetected, either because the signs are too subtle to be seen or are simply missed by sideline personnel or because the athlete fails to report them (a 2010 study [7]
of Canadian junior hockey players, for example, found that, for every
concussion self - reported by the players or identified by the coaches or on - the - bench medical personnel, physician observers in the stands picked up seven)- a persistent problem that, given the «warrior» mentality and culture
of contact and collision sports, is not going to go away any time soon, if ever.
A study
of elite athletes playing contact sports suggests that the
symptoms of depression some experience after a
concussion may result from physical changes in their brains
caused by the
concussions themselves.
[Robert Siman et al, Serum SNTF Increases in Concussed Professional Ice Hockey Players and Relates to the Severity
of Post
Concussion Symptoms] A strong blow to the head
causes chemical changes within nerve cells that damage their structural proteins.
This type
of concussion can also
cause symptoms including: