Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:06 pm
This is becoming a pretty big deal, and it doesn't respect boundaries between sporting codes so it gets a thread of its own.
From memory, in the AFL field we have former players Greg Williams and Daniel Bell reporting difficulties with cognition and memory after suffering numerous concussions in their careers. In the case of Daniel Bell:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/r ... 6031105638
In life after football he currently works in personal fitness, and best of luck to the bloke.
In Greg Williams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7wIqWaKNo
We have a bloke who can't remember his own career. This unfortunately is no surprise - I remember watching most of his career and it was a simple fact that this guy got his brain smashed every second week and played right through every time.
Now, this thing has spread to all corners of the sporting world - NFL is the obvious stand out, but we also have cases in a teenage gridiron player who wasn't known to have suffered a concussive injury, baseball, and now......... football (soccer):
http://gma.yahoo.com/first-soccer-playe ... 05546.html
From memory, in the AFL field we have former players Greg Williams and Daniel Bell reporting difficulties with cognition and memory after suffering numerous concussions in their careers. In the case of Daniel Bell:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/r ... 6031105638
" one of the first in the club to start taking notes in meetings because I knew that it was the only way it was going to get into my brain," he said.
Bell said during games he would sometimes forget his position and he would get pulled up for it.
In life after football he currently works in personal fitness, and best of luck to the bloke.
In Greg Williams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7wIqWaKNo
We have a bloke who can't remember his own career. This unfortunately is no surprise - I remember watching most of his career and it was a simple fact that this guy got his brain smashed every second week and played right through every time.
Now, this thing has spread to all corners of the sporting world - NFL is the obvious stand out, but we also have cases in a teenage gridiron player who wasn't known to have suffered a concussive injury, baseball, and now......... football (soccer):
http://gma.yahoo.com/first-soccer-playe ... 05546.html