Americans today tend to believe that the NFL is a great sport to participate in and has no flaws. But the NFL is a dangerous sport where the players often suffer from concussions. According to the Medical News Today, over 4,000 former football players filed lawsuits alleging that the National Football League failed to protect them from the long-term health consequences of concussions. Also just in 2013, 228 NFL players have been diagnosed with concussions that season, according to the league’s annual Health & Safety Report. These concussions that the athletes suffer from can result in the players developing CTE. CTE is also known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, is a disease that afflicts pain on the brain of people who endured multiple
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Bennet Omalu, who is pathologist that detects a brain decay called CTE in NFL football player Mike Webster. Mike Webster was a center for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Webster suffered from depression which lead to him passing at the age of 50. According to CBS news, “Webster's brain was said to have been through the equivalent of "25,000 car crashes" over his 25 years of playing football in high school, college, and the NFL”. This research on Webster’s brain alone, shows you how dangerous the game of football actually is and how much a toll it takes on your mental being. Throughout the movie, Dr. Omalu fights to get the public attention on the dangers of NFL athletes going through repeated concussions. Generally, a concussion causes damage on the brain which leads to cognitive, physical and mental symptoms. These short-term symptoms include; headaches, being confused, throwing up, being nauseous, and losing your balance quite often. But a few athletes suffer from the long-term effects of the concussions. These effects include having trouble sleeping, loss of memory, personality changes, and not being able to concentrate. If you think about the symptoms of CTE and the long-term effects of concussions, both are quite similar and these effects could possibly lead to diagnosis of …show more content…
In June of 2013, Hernandez was arrested for the killing of Odin Lloyd. While he was in prison, he dropped by New England Patriots. A couple years later, on April 17, 2017, Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell. Once his brain was examined at Boston University CTE Center, they came to find out that Hernandez had Stage 3 CTE. The researchers at Boston University said that Aaron Hernandez case of CTE was as severe as an NFL player with CTE that was twice his age. In this stage, it could have had an effect on his decision making and his behavior. So maybe the continuous head trauma that Hernandez suffered from playing football could have been from him developing CTE at a young age. Dr. Stein, Boston University CTE researcher, emphasizes that, “A form of brain decay linked to the kind of repeated head-to-head collisions essential to football – has a different problem with the settlement. It’s that people affected by the mood problems caused by CTE can still experience devastating changes in their lives”. Basically, Dr. Stein is saying that the mood changes resulted from CTE can have a negative effect on the player having a violent behavior. As I suggested earlier, having a violent mood or behavior which is a symptom of CTE, could have affected the decision making and thought process of
Bennet Omalu, who is pathologist that detects a brain decay called CTE in NFL football player Mike Webster. Mike Webster was a center for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Webster suffered from depression which lead to him passing at the age of 50. According to CBS news, “Webster's brain was said to have been through the equivalent of "25,000 car crashes" over his 25 years of playing football in high school, college, and the NFL”. This research on Webster’s brain alone, shows you how dangerous the game of football actually is and how much a toll it takes on your mental being. Throughout the movie, Dr. Omalu fights to get the public attention on the dangers of NFL athletes going through repeated concussions. Generally, a concussion causes damage on the brain which leads to cognitive, physical and mental symptoms. These short-term symptoms include; headaches, being confused, throwing up, being nauseous, and losing your balance quite often. But a few athletes suffer from the long-term effects of the concussions. These effects include having trouble sleeping, loss of memory, personality changes, and not being able to concentrate. If you think about the symptoms of CTE and the long-term effects of concussions, both are quite similar and these effects could possibly lead to diagnosis of …show more content…
In June of 2013, Hernandez was arrested for the killing of Odin Lloyd. While he was in prison, he dropped by New England Patriots. A couple years later, on April 17, 2017, Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell. Once his brain was examined at Boston University CTE Center, they came to find out that Hernandez had Stage 3 CTE. The researchers at Boston University said that Aaron Hernandez case of CTE was as severe as an NFL player with CTE that was twice his age. In this stage, it could have had an effect on his decision making and his behavior. So maybe the continuous head trauma that Hernandez suffered from playing football could have been from him developing CTE at a young age. Dr. Stein, Boston University CTE researcher, emphasizes that, “A form of brain decay linked to the kind of repeated head-to-head collisions essential to football – has a different problem with the settlement. It’s that people affected by the mood problems caused by CTE can still experience devastating changes in their lives”. Basically, Dr. Stein is saying that the mood changes resulted from CTE can have a negative effect on the player having a violent behavior. As I suggested earlier, having a violent mood or behavior which is a symptom of CTE, could have affected the decision making and thought process of