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Risk of CTE from young age revealed in new study

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Neuro Rehab Times | The extent of young athletes involved in contact and collision sports who have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) has been revealed in a new study. Research has found that, among a sample of 152 young athletes exposed to repetitive head impacts (RHI) who were under age 30 at the time of death, 41.4 […]

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Further light shed on CTE risk

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Neuro Rehab Times | Further evidence has emerged around the cumulative effect of head impacts in raising risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).  The largest CTE study to date, involving 631 deceased football players, has revealed that their odds of developing the neurodegenerative disease were related to both how many head impacts they received and […]

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