November 15, 2016
(NaturalBlaze.com) When I was in private practice as a consulting natural nutritionist, often I had moms ask my opinion about their young boys playing football. That was long before “sports concussions” and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) were on people’s minds and in their vocabulary. Admittedly, I was extremely candid about my reservations regarding those sports due to brain injuries and damage resulting from football and soccer, especially what’s called “heading” the ball in soccer.
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Fast forward and today we learn that brain concussions are “the talk of the town,” especially with professional sports teams and apparent ‘leanings’ or ‘tendencies’ by professional football players toward contracting CTE or some form of dementia that possibly could have been induced by repeated hits to the head and resultant concussions.
Concussion often is considered a “mild traumatic brain injury,” whereas CTE only can be diagnosed definitively during an autopsy after death. However, a CTE diagnosis may be easier to make while a person is alive, thanks to new research from the Lawson Health Research Institute.
