Sentences with phrase «repetitive brain trauma»

CTE is a neurodegenerative disease that affects individuals who have suffered repetitive brain trauma.

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Scientists have recently found evidence that professional football players are susceptible to a progressive degenerative disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repetitive brain trauma.

Yes, no scientific evidence proves this helps / hurts, but in all my work and research I am of the opinion that less dosage of repetitive brain trauma is better for humans.

Stern R, Riley D, Daneshvar D, Nowinski C, Cantu R, McKee A. Long - term Consequences of Repetitive Brain Trauma: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.

To him, the link between football and CTE is clear: «CTE is a progressive, degenerative brain disease, that all evidence points to, is caused by trauma — and usually repetitive brain trauma — that appears to be acquired while you are an athlete, and then slowly rots your brain the rest of your life.»

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There is the ever - growing list of retired football and hockey players who have been diagnosed post-mortem — often post-suicide — with the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), allegedly brought on by repetitive head trauma.

Brain trauma among football players (and athletes in other sports such as soccer and ice hockey) may be less the result of violent collisions that cause concussions as the cumulative effect of repetitive head impacts (RHI).

Of 202 former players of the U.S. version of the game whose brains were examined, 87 % showed the diagnostic signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease associated with repetitive head trauma.

The discovery of brain pathology through autopsy in former National Football League (NFL) players called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has raised substantial concern among players, medical professionals, and the general public about the impact of repetitive head trauma.

We think that from repetitive traumas and rotations of brain, the «head» [of the gland] might get compressed, and this causes torsion along that stalk.

Among the study's other findings: Fighters with greater exposure to repetitive head trauma have lower brain volumes.