To help prevent CTE in future athletes and military service members. To provide a resource for understanding the disease, how it is caused, and how to stop it.
We are so impressed with the uphill quest to save families from suffering by this amazing educator from Canada, Tony Whelan. Please share his website with others to help his courageous battle to stop schools from ruining the brains of their students. https://t.co/J5kt59pLqN
How Blood-Brain Barrier Failure Drives #CTE in Athletes - Neuroscience News I remember speculating of the relationship with Barry Jordan (2010?) and with Stewart 2013/2014? No money for research. https://t.co/JMAtMHvFHG
Know the score , it’s not just a wee knock and no you can’t just run it off or pour water on it , it’s a brain injury.
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#BensLegacy
If everyone on and off the pitch had read this information the night before that fatal match.
“Ben would have been removed “
A life saving message, please share this guidance far and wide 🙏
#IfInDoubtSitThemOut
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The brain scans showed that the blood–brain barriers of the contact-sport athletes were significantly leakier than were those of people in the control group, even though the athletes had been retired for an average of 12 years at the time of the study.
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The results were striking. Former rugby players showed a 22 percent higher risk of developing neurodegenerative conditions such as dementia or Alzheimer’s disease compared with the general population. https://t.co/POTpCo5ndh
Cae Trayhern contact rugby at the age of six, 178 games for Pontypool, 54 as captain. Hung his boots up at 30, took his life at 37 a life long friend who became crippled with the degenerative impact of CTE for head injuries. Miss you bud 😢🫶💔💔🏉🧠🧠
Thank you to this wonderful chaplain, who understands the devastation that can happen to families, for speaking out to protect children. Yes, high school kids are children, with developing brains. https://t.co/g23izQiOxt
When an organization ruins the brains of athletes & then expects them to seek health services with a damaged brain & risk losing their job, it is money grabbing & cruel.
Rondale Moore’s Death Renews Focus on Mental Health in the NFL – Howard University https://t.co/9c2cyC2q1e
It is heartbreaking how they damage the brains of our precious athletes and yet ask these poor damaged brains to have the mental capacity to seek help. Hopeless, crazy and cruel. RIP dear Rondale. https://t.co/imWYspkcX8