http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128339775<\/a><\/p>\r\nDeford\u00a0poses an interesting question: Are some athletes more susceptible to brain damage than others?<\/p>\r\n
And he talks about efforts to find a way to determine if someone has a predisposition to brain damage.<\/p>\r\n
I’ve written in-depth about the significance of Henry’s case, and Deford goes over it as well.\u00a0Henry died several months ago after falling off the back of a pick-up truck. Apart from the injury from his fall, an autopsy determined that\u00a0Henry\u00a0 had\u00a0CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy,\u00a0which is essentially brain trauma.<\/p>\r\n
Right now CTE can only be\u00a0positively diagnosed\u00a0by an autopsy, “in the brain tissue of cadavers,” as Deford puts it.\u00a0So far 22 deceased ex-National Football League players\u00a0have been found to have\u00a0suffered from CTE,\u00a0 he notes.<\/p>\r\n
Henry’s case is a landmark because his death occurred while he was still in the prime of his career (had he not had all of the behavioral issues) and he never even\u00a0sustained any documented concussions.<\/p>\r\n
Deford writes about efforts to find a test that will detect CTE in the brains of the living. Lisa McHale, the widow of deceased NFL player Tom McHale, and McHale’s friend Jim Joyce are pushing for that.<\/p>\r\n
McHale, suffering from depression and self-medicating with drugs, died of an overdose when he was just 45. His widow\u00a0 Lisa blames his problems on brain damage he sustained while playing pro ball.<\/p>\r\n
Joyce, himself an ex-player, is chairman of Aethlon Medical in San Diego.\u00a0Joyce is doing research to determine if there are biomarkers\u00a0that could be used to find those with a predisposition to\u00a0CTE, according to Deford.<\/p>\r\n
The question is asked could such a test convince parents to steer their kids away from sports like football and soccer if in fact they do have a predisposition to CTE.<\/p>\r\n
The concern I have as I hear the chorus about CTE from more and more voices is that they seem to confuse the issue. \u00a0The issue is not whether there is an after death marker of brain injury, CTE, but whether there has been brain injury. \u00a0We can’t find a test for CTE because it is a particular thing that is only found on autopsy. \u00a0While we can’t find a litmus test for brain injury, experienced doctors can make the diagnosis with the proper consideration of all of the medical evidence, including the story of the life of the injured person.<\/p>\r\n
Chris Henry’s life told such a story. \u00a0The tragedy is that no one ever listened to it in context that he was an athlete, playing a violent game.<\/p>\r\n
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