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Post by Sylvia Akenji on Aug 2, 2017 13:27:13 GMT -4
I am surprised that this study has taken so long in gaining public attention. There have always been numerous talks on CTE in football. It is a good thing that awareness is being brought about this neurodegenerative process. However, after reading the article, how this awareness is meant to help the medical community and future football players is not really highlighted. Since there is nothing that can be done to prevent the disease while playing or treat the disease many future players may not be deterred from the sport. More research on how to diagnose, prevent these changes while an individual is still alive will need to be done in order to make major strides in the medical community and NFL as well.
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Post by Sarah Gill on Aug 2, 2017 16:09:23 GMT -4
It’s not shocking to hear that a study on 202 deceased former football players has found that players who are exposed to repeated head trauma were found to have a neurogenerative brain disease. This neurodegenerative brain disease known as CTE can’t be diagnosed until after death but the patient can experience symptoms such as depression and anxiety throughout their lifetime. I think it’s important to educate players that there is treatment available for them and that it is beneficial for them to seek help. I am happy to see that the NFL has acknowledged the correlation between football and CTE and that they are in support further of scientific research.
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Post by Igbudu Akpewe charles on Aug 3, 2017 12:44:52 GMT -4
Football is one of the sports in history that makes a lot of money so when this case about Chronic traumatic encephalopathy came up it was a big issue.as the name implies its a period of chronic trauma to the brain and as the article says it has affected 99% of deceased NFL players so the question beckons.."WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL PLAYING THIS SPORTS"?,of course cause of one thing the money.but is the money worth it..according to the article this disease is an increase in tau protein which is an intrinsically disordered protein which can lead to pathologies such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's..since this is a new disease there are still research going on to find solution to this disease, but what I think is the biggest hinderance to this is the NFL always interfering with researches been done in regards to the disease cause it affects football players.so I think the NFL should work with medical professionals to provide a solution to their football players while on the field to prevent such trauma.
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Post by shahzailq on Aug 3, 2017 12:59:30 GMT -4
CTE was found in 99% of NFL players.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease. It results from multiple hits on the head, it is mainly diagnosed by postpartum with the findings of accumulation of the tau protein in the brain. The clinical manifestations are anxiety, aggression, memory loss, depression, and sducidal behaviour.
I believe the lack of knowledge in people who sign up their children for sports such as football, soccer, and hockey and are not aware of the risk factors and injuries. All the athletes around the world should attend seminars to better understand the sport rules, it's benefits, risk factors, complications, and preventions. The players who are afraid to seek help their families should encourage and support them to better understand head injuries, traumas and concussions.
It is great to see the NFL taking more interest in their players and better health. In 2016, $100 million was invested in support for independent medical research and engineering advancements in neuroscience related topics.
Although the disease cannot be diagnosed until after death, the players will experience the symptoms much sooner and they should be taking help for it. As research continues methods to find a way to diagnose earlier, prevent, and treat.
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Post by Amanda Bailey on Aug 3, 2017 13:45:40 GMT -4
American football is a major sport and has many followers. Children of young ages and adults engage in this sport. Some schools even offer football scholarships and those that excel go on to join professional teams. While football can be fun and entertaining, it is one of many contact sports that can expose someone to repeated head trauma. The article focuses on CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which has been a topic of debate for some time. I was intrigued to find that there was no mention of Dr. Bennet Omalu in the article, whose efforts have helped contribute to CTE being made known to the NFL and the public. A book and subsequently, the movie Concussion were created to showcase Dr. Omalu’s studies and findings.
Additionally, I found it interesting that despite our advanced medical technology, CTE is still only diagnosed via autopsy. As per the article, CTE presented in about 99% of deceased NFL players’ brains. I think this finding is enough to help garner additional research funding. An increase in research would help to decrease bias in studies. Moreover, it would lead to the development of other techniques to diagnose CTE in affected individuals while they are still alive, as well as methods to decrease the impact of repeated head trauma in contact sports. Also, with increased awareness of CTE, those who have been affected may be encouraged to seek help. As the article mentioned, some of the symptoms like depression are treatable.
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Post by Karely Correa Calderas on Aug 4, 2017 9:24:05 GMT -4
The article talks about the relationship between Chronic traumatic encephalopathy with football players. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is the term used to describe brain degeneration likely caused by repeated head traumas. This article makes you think about the association of the recurrent traumas with psychological conditions such as anxiety and depression. I think that football is an aggressive sport in which players get multiple injuries recurrently. Probably, the equipment use by the players should be revised because this is a serious condition that will affect the players’ life eventually. Also, I think that regulations for the sport should be revised in order to protect the players and, more research should be performed to look for the strong links that associate CTE with this psychological conditions.
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Post by ray hall on Aug 4, 2017 10:02:35 GMT -4
This is very interesting to me in fact I just watched the film Concussion recently. The article forces me to re-evaluate how I played sports growing up with consisted of a lot of full contact sports like football with no pads of helmets. This was followed up by MMA training and combat sports. However I did not have any desire to continue on to attempt either as a career. It is just another example of how the pursuit of money can often come at the expense of peoples health. However I am of the option that players should be given access to all the information and be allowed to make their own decisions, but some rules should be put into place for young children and adults.
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Post by Nora Gyampoh on Aug 9, 2017 20:57:16 GMT -4
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a topic in the NFL in my opinion sparks a lot of discussion because it brings to the fore-front the behavioral and cognitive changes that players have to endure during. or post their NFL career. the article clearly sheds more lights on a topic that I believe people are aware off but lack the information to understand it. though further research is being done on CTE and how it affect NFL players. I believe that the changes in the brain pre and post NFL period can also help expand the data on the research and help in pinpointing the main cause or causes of why NFL players are greatly affected when compared to the general population. the movie "concussion" also sheds some lights on CTE and the effects it has on NFL players. also, it has to be addressed that to what level are these players protected in regards to their helmet or other uniform that can help reduce the impact.
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Post by Suraka Aminu Yahaya on Aug 16, 2017 12:32:27 GMT -4
individuals involved in this sport already know the end result of their career, sad but the truth. more-over, there are "pros and cons". with the majority of the population living under $10 per hour as minimum wage, in this case the cons over weights the pros and thats why this sportsmen go into the sport anyway, regardless of the injuries and traumatic events involved in the sport. the NFL as an organization, restrict the amount of researches going on because at the end of the day, they the NFL will suffer the consequences and there will be a major back-drop in football or even possible ban. because the majority of the population won't let the sport to continue knowing each and every player will suffer chronic traumatic encephalopathy at the end of their career, so basically the NFL is using these individuals to make money and then drop them after sometime without a tangible compensation or pay-off.
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Post by Saurav Randhawa on Aug 19, 2017 18:13:32 GMT -4
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE for short is a very serious condition that can have devastating consequences on the health of those who play contact sports. This article brings up a study conducted in which the brains of 202 deceased football players all the way from high school to the NFL were examined and found to have CTE in 99% of the individuals. CTE is caused by a buildup of dysfunctional tau protein that is a result of repeated head trauma. In its mildest form CTE was found to cause anxiety and depression and it made the patients more likely to commit suicide. In the more severe form where there is a greater build up of tau protein, these patients more more likely to exhibit cognitive decline and memory loss. There is money being pledged to conduct more research and to try to gain a better understanding of CTE and how we can decrease the number of individuals who experience this condition . We should all take into account what kind of harm we are exposing ourselves to when we sign up for contact sports.
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Post by Thashi Moksha on Aug 22, 2017 7:38:40 GMT -4
The article primarily discusses the case study results that neuropathologically confirmed CTE found in athletes, including football and other contact sports players, who have a history of repetitive brain trauma. Actually it infact has been known to affect boxers since the 1920’s (when it was initially termed punch drunk syndrome or dementia pugilistica). So it goes far back but the current research on Football players made it a very popular topic. Overall NFL taking an interest in their players health and the more awareness in public of the long term consequences of the CTE is a step forward for medical community as well. As it is mostly diagnosed in deceased patients, it would be interesting for physicians to learn how to observe and monitor CTE patients. Since this progressive degenerative disease of the brain is mostly found in people with a H/O RBT, it’s thought that repeated concussions eventually will stress brain cells. The end result is abnormal tangles of tau protein that accumulate in neurons.Tau tangles also are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. However, CTE doesn't present similar to Alzheimer’s disease. CTE’s tau tangles arise in the brains of much younger people and tend to appear first in regions of the brain that aren’t typically affected by Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, although CTE can cause dementia, it’s not clear whether the condition leads to dementia in all cases. The presentation varies from symptomatic concussions to asymptomatic subconcussive hits to the head that do not cause symptoms. I guess there is much research that can be done in the area. How brain can be affected and how certain areas of the brain damage affects present in different people is still a conundrum...!
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