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Concussions
Worse Then You Think
In healthy brain tissue, virtually no protein tangles, which show up as
brown spots, are visible.
The brain of a 45-year-old football player with chronic traumatic
encephalopathy shows more brown tangles.
Ted Johnson has CTE as a result of at his estimate at least 50 concussions while he played professional football
Professional sports teams have team doctors that know what a concussion looks like. Youth sports teams do not, and that can be dangerous because they can be sent back into play and have it worsened by another hit
Players that get a concussion should be cleared by a doctor
before they go back into play. This is one of the
tools doctors use to determine when the player can resume
playing.
Chris Nowinksi played football for Harvard before his professional wrestling career. He got a few concussions playing football which caused his severe
concussion he got while wrestling to be even worse.
At CSTE (Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy) in Boston, they take many images of brains of all
ages with and without CTE and compare them.
All leagues and all sports should make rules and take initiative in preventing concussions, like USA Hockey did with their Heads Up
Hockey posters.
Bibliography
• Concussion definition picture: http://edmontonhockeyblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/concussion.jpg
• Boy with concussion picture: http://www.sphemerg.ca/images/Concussion.jpg
• Brain with and without CTE pictures: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/26/ athlete.brains/index.html
• Ted Johnson: http://img.timeinc.net/time/quotes/2008/09/0924_johnson.jpg
Bibliography Continued
• Football injury: http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/1222/otl_a_roethsinjury_576.jpg
• Lacrosse hit: http://laxbuzz.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/concussions-in-lacrosse1.jpg
• Concussion test form: : http://www.sirc.ca/newsletters/november05/images/figure2.jpg
• Chris Nowinski: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2009/09/30/nowinskifootball.jpg
Bibliography Continued
• Brain scan: : http://web-cwcamer.gehealthcare.com/usen/ct/case_studies/images/cte_brain_axial4.jpg
• Brain scan with doctor: : http://web-cwcamer.gehealthcare.com/usen/ct/case_studies/images/cte_brain_axial4.jpg
• Heads up hockey poster: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2274/1639771133_45f4037809_o.jpg