08-08-2017, 01:42 PM
(08-08-2017, 11:32 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: I was thinking more of a public outcry or the law getting involved or something like that.
As far as CTE, that doesn't make much sense to me because they do brain scans on people to find traumatic brain injuries.
I think that NFL players should be allowed to smoke lots of weed since weed grows back missing brain cells and heals damaged parts.
But some brain damage would be visible, and if it's bad enough to be visible, then it should obviously call to stop a player's career.
I'll admit that I don't have much knowledge of CTE, but it seems like it would have to start in edges of the brain from banging against the skull and then it spreads to the rest of the brain, so you wouldn't be able to see where it spreads, but you would be able to see the initial damage.
I agree but I'm thinking the public outcry might get to be too much or that the government might step in.
http://m.alz.org/chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy-cte-symptoms.asp#Diagnosis
The technology to scan a brain for signs of CTE doesn't exist. It is only diagnosed by using a brain tissue sample prepared in a specific way to demonstrate abnormal protein deposition when examined with a microscope. The brain tissue sample comes from their autopsy. That's why there isn't a test or scan currently available to diagnose a person with CTE while living.
Because there isn't a test available to diagnose a living person with CTE the NFL uses that to their advantage to down play the incidence, prevalence, and risks of CTE similarly to how they treated concussions in the past.
