Long before he could have developed CTE from Football.
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Playing tackle football under the age of 12 exposes children to repetitive head impacts that may double their risk of developing behavioral problems and triple their chances of suffering depression later in life
High School Football Can Lead to Long-Term Brain Damage, Study Says
The sample size is now at least four.
Bengals WR Chris Henry died at age 26 when he fell out of the back of a pickup truck, during a domestic dispute with his fiancee. He’d had a number of disciplinary and behavior problems while with the Bengals. An autopsy showed that he was already suffering from CTE, though he’d never been diagnosed as having received a concussion.
University of Pennsylvania DE Owen Thomas hanged himself at age 21. He, too, had never been diagnosed with a concussion, but had CTE.
And, an unnamed former NCAA Division I linebacker, who had a history of concussions, died of cardiac arrest at age 25. His case was described in a JAMA Neurology article; while it was apparently not a factor in his death, he, too, had CTE.
Soccer players have also been diagnosed with CTE, so that’s one thin which is not safer. No idea about a Rugby, but won’t be surprised. Ditto ice hockey.
I have read some Sports doctors say that cricket (a non contact sport), might see incidences of it, since top players are struck on the head multiple times a season. Baseball?
Double Post.
AH was a gang member. He got into fights. It is impossible to know how his brain got injured. He is dead because he is s coward and couldn’t take life in prison.
When did he start to play football, and how long does it take to develop CTE?
He probably started as a kid. CTE, I believe, is one of those conditions which grows worse over time. Repeated blows to a kid’s developing brain can wreak havoc later on despite wearing a helmet.
I also wonder about kids from families that hit their children or throw them against walls, etc.
Head trauma from any source can start the process of permanent brain damage.
Yeah, a lot of my patients had a LOT of concussions and other assorted head trauma as kids, both from abuse and from life on the streets.
It tends to disinhibit a lot of bad behavioral urges, unfortunately.
But of the ones you listed, only one is encouraged by proud parents and cheering crowds that pay to see t happen.
Bob Probert, Rick Rypien among others.
We are teaching our children in many sports how to “take a hit”, but nobody tells them that once you take it, it’s yours for the rest of your life.
I’m sooooo glad my parents weren’t sports parents.
I presume the most prominent bad behavioral urge is violence. Aside from that?
Does it mainly occur through decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex? How do those people (and those who interact with them) cope with that?
I think we’re losing perspective on school sports.
I’d guesstimate at least 20% of students participated in contact sports. Many play multiple sports. I played basketball and ran track. I hit the floor a few times and got my bell rung. Thankfully it rarely happened.
Any rough guesses on how many students (in contact sports) that would be in the past 80 years? A 100 million? 75 million? There’s no accurate number.
How many of your high school friends or teammates exhibit any CTE symptoms?
For me the answer is ZERO. I conceed there maybe a few thousand in that group of 100 million that got head injuries and developed CTE. The people in traffic accidents is much higher.
Society would certainly notice if a 100 million people came out of school with brain injuries. CTE behavior is very obvious. These people have gone on to rich and fullfilling lives. Raised families and loved their grandkids.
The most lingering sports injuries from high school are knee injuries. You often hear of a guy with a trick knee that locks up and causes them to fall. Modern orthoscopic surgery has made that less common today. I had my knee scoped a few years after college.
I totally agree CTE is a concern for college athletes and certainly pros.
When did you conduct your study, and how did you get their medical records?
It’s called common sense.
80 plus years of high school sports.
There’s no way CTE symptoms wouldn’t have been observed within the population.
Not to mention all the autopsies done in the past 80 years. Examining the brain is part of any autopsy. Medical examiners would have seen that damage in the brain tissue dissection decades ago.
Pro sports is entirely different. Players are bigger and stronger. They’ve had 12 plus years of impact on their bodies.
If that is when your concern starts, then it is far too late to just be concerned. For the vast majority of athletes their careers don’t start in college, they start in gradeschool and high school, back when skulls are still soft and bones are still connecting.
It’s called believing what you want to believe without even bothering to find out, and and ignoring the actual studies that have come out on this subject.