Sentences with phrase «repetitive head trauma»

The full impact of repetitive head trauma from sports injuries is not fully understood.

In all the players, the researchers found signs characteristic of the degenerative disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which has been associated with repetitive head trauma.

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.

A few months later McKee and her colleagues at B.U. confirmed that Duerson suffered from CTE, possibly caused by concussions and other repetitive head trauma sustained on the gridiron.

Recovery usually occurs within a short time, but previous research has suggested that high - school athletes take longer to recover than do older athletes, and that even teenage athletes are at risk for repetitive head trauma.

«Anyone who is exposed to mild repetitive head trauma is vulnerable,» McKee says.

Original Journal Source: C. Winston et al. «Dendritic spine loss and chronic white matter inflammation in a mouse model of highly repetitive head trauma.»

The team defines CTE, a diagnosis made only at autopsy, as «progressive degeneration 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.

Repetitive head trauma can lead to a permanent decrease in brain function.

What I learned from working with the Newcastle team, and with youth football programs across the country over the years is that traditional concussion education in which athletes, coaches, and parents are taught the signs and symptoms of concussion, and the health risks of concussion and repetitive head trauma, isn't working to change the concussion reporting behavior of athletes.

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.

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

«Our study found that higher levels of both proteins may be associated with repetitive head trauma,» said Bernick.