CTE Solution To Prevent The End Of The NFL?

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(08-08-2017, 10:07 PM)Au165 Wrote: You don't get it, but that's fine it's what you do. Good luck Brad.

I do get it.

CTE can't be seen in brain scans, but tau can, and tau causes CTE.

Not real sure how you're not picking up on that.

(08-08-2017, 10:12 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Plus it is a degenerative condition that worsens with time. Arthritis is a fairly decent analogy. If you x-rayed most NFL players joints you would see little to no arthritis in young men in their 20s. But, in their 40s or 60s they most likely have a greater degree of degenerative changes compared to their peers who didn't play professional football. Plus an x-ray can't tell you if the degeneration is due to osteoarthritis vs. rheumatoid arthritis because it requires more specialized testing. Furthermore, yearly scans would increase their exposure to radiation and their chances of developing cancer as a result of the increased radiation without any demonstratable improvement in outcome (e.g. reducing the player's chance of developing CTE.)

Or Brad's the first person to think of scanning their brains.

We could put this to the Occam's Razor test. All the doctors and researchers never thought of scanning someone's brain for CTE until Brad. Or, they did think of it and brain scans aren't diagnostic for CTE.

Like how many licks to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop, I guess we'll never know.

How many football players do you know say "man, my head really hurts from that game, maybe I should go get a brain scan"?  It's more like "give me a Tylenol."

Actually, while it's a degenerate disease and the effects can get worse over time, as recently as 2013, brain scans of current NFL players show brain damage, and the build-up of tau, as I've already pointed out, can be shown in brain scans.