More cases of brain disease found in football players

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(CNN) -- When a professional football player meets his end with dramatic and terrifying suicidal flourish, lately the focus in the aftermath is on what was happening in his brain before he died.

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Of the 35 players, 34 of them at the professional level, who had brain tissue sampled posthumously for the study, all but one showed evidence of disease.

More cases of brain disease found in football players - CNN.com

 

[mosi]

I wonder why no one looks at boxers. They repeatedly take hits to the head. What do their brains look like. Also, from a scientific point of view, all most of these studies can say is that the brains of football players who die early, look different than other brains. It may mean something but it may not.

 

[PATSNUTme]

I wonder why no one looks at boxers. They repeatedly take hits to the head. What do their brains look like. Also, from a scientific point of view, all most of these studies can say is that the brains of football players who die early, look different than other brains. It may mean something but it may not.

Or message board posters.

 

[mtbykr]

I wonder why no one looks at boxers. They repeatedly take hits to the head. What do their brains look like. Also, from a scientific point of view, all most of these studies can say is that the brains of football players who die early, look different than other brains. It may mean something but it may not.

Because boxing is a dying sport while the NFL is #1. The UFC has gone out of their way to show the injury differences between boxing and MMA.

 

[Bella*chick]

What was the result of the tests on Seau's brain? I heard Lavar Arrington say they found absolutely nothing wrong but I found that kind of difficult to believe.

 

[patfanken]

Old people with brain disease. What a shock. Millions upon Millions of kids have played football for several years and 99.9% go on to live healthy lives (or at least non-brain damaged lives) I don't understand the rush to judgement that sees every hit become a debilitating concussion, and every ant-social act the result of playing football.

In a society where placing blame is the true national pass time, football is going to die a slow death that fortunately I won't be around to witness. Its both sad and unnecessary

 

[yukon cornelius]

What was the result of the tests on Seau's brain? I heard Lavar Arrington say they found absolutely nothing wrong but I found that kind of difficult to believe.

initial autopsy showed no signs of brain damage.....but i believe the testing for CTE takes a lot longer to conduct and is fairly specialized....CTE wouldn't have shown up on a routine autopsy, which is essentially an external examination of the brain


CTE was first discovered in boxers - the long term effects of boxing on the brain have long been known



the Seau CTE testing results, to the best of my knowledge, have not yet been released

 

[Bella*chick]

initial autopsy showed no signs of brain damage.....but i believe the testing for CTE takes a lot longer to conduct and is fairly specialized....CTE wouldn't have shown up on a routine autopsy, which is essentially an external examination of the brain


CTE was first discovered in boxers - the long term effects of boxing on the brain have long been known



the Seau CTE testing results, to the best of my knowledge, have not yet been released

Thanks for the info! I guess Lavar was half right.

 

[Tunescribe]

I'd like to know more about helmet construction in relation to head/brain physiology. Apparently, the problem with concussions is not from hits to the head per se as it is the brain moving around inside the skull and impacting the inside of the skull itself. I've long wondered if there was another type of material that could more effectively absorb the torque of impact vs. the hard plastic shell. Or perhaps another system entirely, where the helmet is mounted on the shoulder pads ...

 

[Whorod]

Who would boxers blame? Aren't they essentially independent contractors?

 

[FortressX]

the Seau CTE testing results, to the best of my knowledge, have not yet been released

Test results spoken about now.

Seau's family donated his brain to the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C., to find out if he was one of many players whose time in the NFL led to CTE. Seau's widow, Gina, said that last week, doctors told her that he did.

"I think it's important for everyone to know that Junior did indeed suffer from CTE," Gina Seau said. "It's important that we take steps to help these players. We certainly don't want to see anything like this happen again to any of our athletes."

Report: Junior Seau suffered from CTE, a syndrome caused by repeated head trauma | Shutdown Corner - Yahoo! Sports