Contact sports played by amateurs increase risk of degenerative disorder, evidence suggests
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 11:50
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have recently found evidence that professional football players are susceptible to a progressive degenerative disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repetitive brain trauma. Now, researchers have discovered a significant and surprising amount of CTE in males who had participated in amateur contact sports in their youth.