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Roethlisberger's Injury Highlights Nerve Center for Head Trauma
[SIZE=-1]New York Times, United States [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The former Steelers Mike Webster, Terry Long and Justin Strzelczyk died before the age of 51 and were later found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, degenerative brain damage similar to that found in boxers with dementia. Those findings and those involving two other N.F.L. players have convinced many experts that footballs repeated and often undiagnosed head trauma can cause significant long-term damage.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Steelers concussion-management team the neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon and the consultants Mark Lovell and Micky Collins has, however, spent more than 10 years developing the computer-based neurological test now used by hundreds of high school, college and N.F.L. teams to avoid further injury. That visibility has helped their practice at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center attract football players ages 8 to 38 from across the country, making Pittsburgh the virtual hub of modern concussion management.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]That the Steelers have had three of the five known N.F.L. cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy is largely coincidental. The Webster and Long discoveries were made only on a hunch by a neuropathologist working in a coroners office near Pittsburgh, where the two players had died. Moreover, experts have said that the findings were evidence of footballs overall danger rather than neglect by Steelers personnel.[/SIZE]
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Roethlisberger's Injury Highlights Nerve Center for Head Trauma
[SIZE=-1]New York Times, United States [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The former Steelers Mike Webster, Terry Long and Justin Strzelczyk died before the age of 51 and were later found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, degenerative brain damage similar to that found in boxers with dementia. Those findings and those involving two other N.F.L. players have convinced many experts that footballs repeated and often undiagnosed head trauma can cause significant long-term damage.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Steelers concussion-management team the neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon and the consultants Mark Lovell and Micky Collins has, however, spent more than 10 years developing the computer-based neurological test now used by hundreds of high school, college and N.F.L. teams to avoid further injury. That visibility has helped their practice at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center attract football players ages 8 to 38 from across the country, making Pittsburgh the virtual hub of modern concussion management.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]That the Steelers have had three of the five known N.F.L. cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy is largely coincidental. The Webster and Long discoveries were made only on a hunch by a neuropathologist working in a coroners office near Pittsburgh, where the two players had died. Moreover, experts have said that the findings were evidence of footballs overall danger rather than neglect by Steelers personnel.[/SIZE]
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