CTE Risk, Severity Increases with Years Playing American Football

7th October, 2019

11 October 2019, News, Newsletter, PT, TBI

[Source: Medical X-Press]

The risk and severity of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increases with the number of years playing American football according to a new study that appears online in Annals of Neurology. These findings reaffirm the relationship between playing tackle football and CTE, and for the first time quantify the strength of that relationship.

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