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10-06-2011, 11:40 AM
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"Boston University researchers have found a degenerative disease linked to head trauma in the brain tissue of the late NHL great Rick Martin, the first 50-goal scorer for the Buffalo Sabres and a member of their famed French Connection line."
Rick Martin had only one diagnosed concussion and they found CTE in his autopsied brain. Scary stuff. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/...-national.html |
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10-06-2011, 03:33 PM
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If you read the full research on CTE, one of the biggest causes is Sub-Concussive Impacts. Hockey players suffer many sub-concussive impacts in each game. Since there are no symptoms from these impacts, they do nothing to let the brain heal.
The research done at UNC-Chapel Hill shows that football players receive 700 to 900 sub-concussive impacts PER SEASON. These many mild shakings of the brain combine to cause CTE. fyi, CTE is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, defined as a shrinking or atrophying of the brain.
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