CTE: It's Not Just Football that's Victimized by it.
CTE: It's Not Just Football that's Victimized by it.
Hockey is the second most physical sport in the world. Researchers found that each additional year of playing hockey may increase a person's chance of developing CTE by about 23%. Their study looked at the brains of 74 people, ranging in age from 13 to 91, who played hockey at various levels from youth hockey to professional sport. Nearly half of the individuals, 46%, also participated in other contact sports such as football. All of them donated their brains to research after their deaths. The researchers found that among 74 donors, 40 of them, or 54%, had developed CTE.
Hello,
Welcome to my blog about CTE and how it doesn't affect just the sport of football. This will feature the different parties affected by CTE and how it may occur. CTE is short for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, is a progressive degenerative disease affecting people who have suffered repeated concussions and traumatic brain injuries, that may occur in some athletes and others who have been exposed to concussions and repetitive head impacts.
As many of you know CTE is associated with football. When you hear CTE you think of the National Football League and all of the players that have had it end their careers: Aaron Hernandez, Junior Seau, Ken Stabler, and more. These men's lives were ruined because of this brain injury and it can happen to so many others in sport.
Hockey is the second most physical sport in the world. Researchers found that each additional year of playing hockey may increase a person's chance of developing CTE by about 23%. Their study looked at the brains of 74 people, ranging in age from 13 to 91, who played hockey at various levels from youth hockey to professional sport. Nearly half of the individuals, 46%, also participated in other contact sports such as football. All of them donated their brains to research after their deaths. The researchers found that among 74 donors, 40 of them, or 54%, had developed CTE.
Wrestling such as the WWE might be professional actors and martial artists competing but the wrestlers still are affected. Arn Anderson put it best when he was asked about the increase in CTE cases. “Hitting somebody in the head with a steel chair, you can’t, you can’t mask it. It’s dangerous. We have learned that many of us later in life, you know, suffer memory issues and all kinds of things from getting hit in the head with chairs … We just didn’t have the medical community stepping up”
The last sport is boxing. The sport of boxing has been the source of much debate, with concerns about the neurological risks of participating has led to many calls to ban the sport. This review seeks to establish an evidence base for the development of boxing-related CTE and to determine the relevance of this information to modern-day sport. The risk is so high for CTE that there's been rumors to ban the sport. If that doesn't say anything I don't know what will.
Braden, it was interesting to learn more about CTE in your blog post. Growing up I played football, and it has been my favorite sport to watch by far, so I also have some background on this subject. When you talked about the sport of hockey, it's crazy that each additional year increases one's chances of developing CTE by 23%. Throughout your blog posts I think touching on ways (if any) chances of CTE can be reduced/eliminated would enhance the audience's interest even more. As you pointed out a little bit in the wrestling portion of the post, the importance of the medical community could be a significant factor in reducing CTE.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree CTE is a very serious topic, research into CTE has raised concerns about the long-term health effects of contact sports and has prompted discussions around improved safety measures and concussion protocols in sports leagues. It has also led to increased awareness about the importance of protecting athletes, particularly young athletes, from repeated head injuries.
ReplyDeleteGood start. Remember, you should be introducing yourself as part of your blog introduction. And I don't see where you plan to go with the blog because you talk about three different sports here. It might have made more sense to talk about one sport in each post? For your source, you need to attribute it as more than the person speaking. Where did the quote come from? (article, author, publication or website, date--and if it is an internet source, why not link to it?) I LOVE the image you used, but you have to attribute it--that is a copyrighted image, as well, which is concerning. Be sure to keep paragraphs short--just one to three sentences each. And take some time to proofread and edit. You have some typos here, including missing punctuation.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree playing football at a young age I didn't know how important CTE was reading your blog really open my eyes even more about the situation and how serious it is
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