Effects Of Concussions In Football Players. Part 1 of 3

Effects Of Concussions In Football Players. The US National Institutes of Health is teaming up with the National Football League on probing into the long-term effects of repeated pate injuries and improving concussion diagnosis. The projects will be supported largely through a $30 million donation made last year to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health by the NFL, which is wrestling with the matter of concussions and their impact on current and former players. There’s growing concern about the potential long-term effects of repeated concussions, particularly among those most at risk, including football players and other athletes and members of the military.

Current tests can’t reliably diagnosis concussion. And there’s no distance to predict which patients will recover quickly, suffer long-term symptoms or unfold a progressive brain disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to an NIH press statement released Monday, Dec 2013. “We need to be able to predict which patterns of wrong are rapidly reversible and which are not.

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