Martin Havlat, leading scorer for Chicago Hawks sustained a major concussion in Game 3 of the Playoff’s against Detroit Red Wings.
After being knocked cold for more than a minute, and then helped off the ice by a teammate and doctor, he returned for Game 4 only 2 days later – experts are saying not long [...]
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Recent research studying brain tissue from retired NFL players is shedding light on what concussions look like in the brain. Far from being innocuous, invisible injuries as previously thought, concussions confer tremendous brain damage. That damage has a name: chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
Researchers at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), at the [...]
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