Chronic Sports Injury

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What are the short term/long term damaging effects of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) suffered by athletes through sport participation? The need for this study is significant since many concussions go undiagnosed when athletes fail to report concussive symptoms that are not accurately identified as having concussive symptoms. This means that athletes will return to game action unknowingly injured and risk further damage since they’re not fully recovered. Something that I would like to do with this research is display the serious damage caused by concussions, especially, when the injury goes undetected.
The purpose of this study is to bring awareness about the seriousness of concussion injuries. Furthermore, when parents, coaches,

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