91% in NFL brains. 1% in general population.
I can provide the gift article, but the headline really covers it.
It's time for the NFL to step up on CTE in more a "here's some money, we didn't do it" way.
@Cosmichomicide
Holy shit, they've seen some bad cases, and I've seen the MRIs...it must be pretty bad 😕
@Cosmichomicide
No wonder he became a homicidal maniac! There have been players in the sport 40 years who didn't have it that bad.
Jovan Belcher. Age 25. Killed his girlfriend and himself. 10 years ago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nfl-player-who-killed-wife-in-murder-suicide-had-brain-damage/
But we can measure it. We did. For a while. And then decided to stop.
See, the military has the same issue with blast concussions. And collected a ton of data. Then cancelled the program.
We are trying again, though. These sensors are also in NFL helmets now.
I honestly hope that today's death brings CTE back into view.
Why is it important outside of contact sports and the military? Domestic violence, child abuse, falls, diving, slip and slides, car accidents, swinging doors, low ceiling beams...
@Cosmichomicide @Usama_Backhair Pretty sure the reason they stopped measuring it is because they couldn't find any feasible way to actually protect players (or soldiers, for that matter) from brain injuries without radically changing the parameters of the situation at a feasible cost.
@Cosmichomicide @Usama_Backhair Perhaps the solution is to... I don't know... maybe *stop having people do things that cause brain damage*, when we know there's no real way to prevent said brain damage from happening when they do the thing.
(Most) sports in a nutshell: a bunch of grown ass adults aggressively fucking around with a (usually spheroid) symbolic object in such a manner as to practically guarantee many of them end up with severe CTE, as a form of ritual conflict / entertainment.