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Brain Injuries Haunt Football Players Years Later

By seniorhomecareinfo on | From seniorhomecareinformation.com
Enlarge iStockphoto.com High school football players will experience more than 40,000 concussions this season. iStockphoto.com High school football players will experience more than 40,000 concussions this season. A 2000 study that surveyed 1,090 former NFL players found that more than 60 percent had suffered at least one concussion during their career. Concussions, a type of traumatic brain injury, generally occur when the head either spins rapidly or accelerates quickly and then...Read Full Story

300 athletes helping with brain injury studies

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Since his college days, New England Revolution forward Taylor Twellman has had seven diagnosed concussions. Given all the headers and hits over his career, he's wondering if that number might be drastically higher. Twellman still deals with the effects of a concussion he sustained during a collision with a goalkeeper two years ago, one that possibly cost him a shot at making the U.S. World Cup team and cut short his 2010 season after going on injured reserve in late June. Now he's volunteered...Read Full Story

Concussions & the NFL: NFL Player Dave Duerson Suffered from Advanced CTE

By mariescott75 on | From glucksteinlaw.wordpress.com
Dave Duerson of the Chicago Bears, NY Giants and Phoenix Cardinals suffered from an advanced form of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). He commit suicide on February 17, 2011 at the age of 50.  And football players and the media are calling him “Football’s first martyr”. Click here for a video from the Center for the Study of Traumatic Ecephalopathy discussing this case. Before he took his life, he took steps to help others: he left a note and text messages and asked his survivors...Read Full Story

Concussions & the NFL: NFL Player Dave Duerson Suffered from Advanced CTE

By mariescott75 on | From gluckstein.com
Dave Duerson of the Chicago Bears, NY Giants and Phoenix Cardinals suffered from an advanced form of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). He commit suicide on February 17, 2011 at the age of 50.  And football players and the media are calling him “Football’s first martyr”. Click here for a video from the Center for the Study of Traumatic Ecephalopathy discussing this case. Before he took his life, he took steps to help others: he left a note and text messages and asked his survivors to...Read Full Story

WWE Hits Back at Nowinski

By Kaliqo on | From klqwrestling.com
Former wrestler and anti-head-trauma advocate Chris Nowinski said some very critical things about Senate candidate Linda McMahon and the WWE in a recent interview with NECN, alleging that the WWE encourages steroid use and provides an unsafe environment for its wrestlers. While the McMahon campaign has not responded, to my knowledge, the WWE has. The WWE emailed this response to Nowinski's criticisms today: WWE RAISES CREDIBILITY ISSUES FOR CHRIS NOWINSKI • Chris Nowinski did not...Read Full Story
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Concussions hit the young hardest
Concussions hit the young hardestVancouver SunMultiple hits over time can lead to extremes, says Chris Nowinski, head of the Boston-based Sports Legacy Institute, a collaboration of doctors and advocates for research on brain trauma linked to contact sports. Nowinski, a former Harvard football ...and more »  
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Chris Nowinski Speaks Out - Orton's Concussion Thoughts
Chris Nowinski Speaks Out - Orton's Concussion ThoughtsWrestling Inc.By Ryan Clark | February 07, 2012 | Comments Former WWE star Chris Nowinski recently talked about his work with the Sports Legacy Institute in concussion research, talking with Randy Orton about the issue, his conversations with Chris Benoit and more.Chris Nowinski Talks Randy Orton Taking Time Off and Chris BenoitTWNP-Wrestling Newsall 3 news articles »  
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Chris Nowinski Says Randy Orton Is Advocating Time Off After Head Bumbs...
Former WWE star Chris Nowinski recently talked about his work with the Sports Legacy Institute in concussion research, talking with Randy Orton about the issue, his conversations with Chris Benoit and more. Check out the highlights: On Randy Orton changing ...  
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Chris Nowinski Discusses Conversations He Had With Chris Benoit, Wanting To...
So I tracked down Michael Benoit and I said, 'Llisten I’m not telling you an answer, but this may have played a role and we need to find out what the answer is.' Mike, thank God, agreed and helped put this whole thing in perspective."  
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Christopher Nowinski Details Conversations with Benoit Prior to Tragedy
Former WWE wrestler Chris Nowinski says his mission with the Sports Legacy Institute is to understand why the concussion-related CTE disease happens so it can be prevented in the future. It relates to Chris Benoit, who Nowinski says showed signs of CTE in their conversations prior to Benoit's double murder/suicide in June 2007. "We incorporated Sports Legacies ten days before the Benoit tragedy. A year prior to that I sat down with Benoit...  
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Top WWE Star Advocating Time Off?
Former WWE wrestler Chris Nowinski says top star Randy Orton is now advocating for time off to heal from injuries, specifically bumps around the head, after learning more about concussions. Nowinski said on the Busted Open satellite radio show that wrestlers requesting time off for concussions were viewed as soft during his era (2002-2003), but Orton is helping change the culture. "A guy like Randy Orton just didn't buy into it, and I ran into...  
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WWE: Top SmackDown Superstar Looking for Time Off?
In a recent interview on the Busted Open satellite radio show, former WWE Superstar Chris Nowinski revealed that SmackDown Superstar Randy Orton is currently advocating for some time off to heal from injuries, specifically injuries to his head.  
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