In addition to the 700-plus college athletes he tracks in his database and the thousands of retired athletes whose concussion experiences he has culled, Guskiewicz has his son Adam, an 11-year-old Pop Warner player who weekly suits up in the North Carolina colors for the Orange County (N.C).
Col. Geoffrey Ling of DARPA, the Department of Defense's research and development office, and also a member of the NFL's Head, Neck and Spine Committee, sat in an Arlington office last month, doing his best to dovetail the troops' post-concussion experience with that of NFL players.
Some of the key pieces of information would include genetic testing that suggests susceptibility to brain disorders; new ways to track the number and force of impacts athletes receive during competition; the number and severity of concussions experienced; and ways to measure athletes's aggressiveness.
Research has linked concussions experienced by NFL players to conditions such as memory loss.
Interestingly, increased levels of uptake were associated with increased number of concussions experienced.
Viano and colleagues developed a rat model of CHI with unrestricted head movement to mimic concussions experienced by professional football players (Viano et al., 2009; Viano et al., 2012).
McKee told CBC she believed Martin's C.T.E. was caused by more than the one reported concussion he experienced".I'm going to imagine that there were many other more trivial blows to the head," she said.
"The Milkmaid's Lot" picked up after the massive explosion blew up Babette's, and as crews cleaned up the wreckage on the Boardwalk, Nucky was recovering from a concussion he experienced in the blast.
Some have gone permanently deaf, or suffered concussions; others experienced dizziness, nausea, severe headaches, and tinnitus.
The three (documented) concussions I experienced resulted in a seizure disorder I will deal with for the rest of my life.
