Read the studies
Read the studies
- THE ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY Duration of American football play and chronic traumatic encephalopathy
- THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Development and validation of risk models to select ever-smokers for CT lung-cancer screening
- The New England Journal of Medicine Selection criteria for lung-cancer screening
- Oxford Academic Variations in lung cancer risk among smokers
Youth tackle football is a lot like smoking.
The longer you do it, the greater the danger.
Over time, a child’s risk ofdeveloping CTE from tacklemay add up
faster than a smoker’s risk of developing lung cancer.
faster than a smoker’s risk of developing lung cancer.
Starting younger only increases the risk.
What is CTE?
What is CTE?
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive brain disease that
can cause problems with mood, behavior, thinking, and memory.
It may lead todementia or eventual death.
Healthy Brain
Brain with CTE
Credit: Dr. Ann McKee, Copyright: BU Photography
How does tackle
cause CTE?
cause CTE?
CTE is triggered by repeated hits to the head.
Every hit, big or small, causes the brain to move violently inside the skull.
This movement can damage the brain, and it isnot stopped by a helmet.
Over time, those repeated hits can spark the disease.
What are the odds of
developing disease?
What are the odds of developing disease?
What happens
when you quit?
QUIT SMOKING
Lungs recover
QUIT TACKLE
Brains don't
