CTE, What is it and What are the Side Affects.

Source: http://www.bu.edu

Today there are over 36 million kids that in organized sports and with this number growing every year we could see more diseases like CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) occurring in some of these kids heads after they grow older.  Concussions are nothing to play with and with all new statistics coming out every year we can see that it can be detrimental to the health of everyone who gets one.  The CTE Center at Boston University wrote this article to show what CTE is and how dangerous it is to someone's health if it is found in their brain.  This is a reliable source because these are the people who do all the testing with CTE and find new findings to help people not get this disease because of re-occuring  trauma to the head.

In the article it Boston University's research center for CTE talks about what CTE is and how it affects people in there brain.  It states that “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in athletes with a history of repetitive brain trauma, including symptomatic concussions as well as asymptomatic sub concussive hits to the head.” (Boston University)  The disease as a whole had usually for a while just been in boxers who take punches everyday to the head, but recent studies over the past couple of years shows that is can happen in any contact sport with re-occurring trauma to the head.  Aspects of CTE are dangerous to any person involved in high contact sports because you never know if you will get the disease of not.  CTE can have “these changes in the brain begin in months, years, or even decades after the last brain trauma or end of active athletic involvement.” (Boston University)  This shows how deadly this disease really is because you never know if you are truly going to get it because of the ticking time bomb aspect of it.  If the disease makes it way into your head you can expect “memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and, eventually, progressive dementia.” (Boston University)  Therefore with all the side effects that occur with CTE are dangerous to someone's health if they were to have CTE.  The amount of effects with CTE is just not worth playing contact sports and maybe getting CTE. Overall CTE is a problem that is becoming more prominent in today's society and the real question is should contact sports be played if these kinds of injuries are being brought onto athletes. If the side effects of a disease like CTE are that severe then people should not play contact sports or there should be a lot more regulations so people do not get hurt.

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