Thousands of Sub-concussive Hits Can Lead to CTE
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What I found in football players surprised
me because I really hadn’t realized that
they were getting repetitive brain trauma.
And the reason for that is you don’t see
it.
It’s an invisible injury.
There’s no blood.
There’s no pain.
They’re not immediately affected because
what we’ve learned now is that those low-level
hits, the sub-concussive hits, they’re not
symptomatic.
They don’t cause them to play poorly.
You know, they feel fine.
They play very well through them, but we’ve
found that the cumulative exposure to these
low-level hits that happen on every play of
every game in football.
That is what leads to this neurodegeneration
called CTE.
That it’s a small level of damage that occurs,
but with repetitive injury, which could be
small, but just over the thousands and thousands of hits that they get through their career,
it provokes a neurodegenerative disease.
This video was produced by BrainLine thanks to generous support from the Infinite Hero Foundation.