Sports | Dossier – “Should headers be banned in football?” : a neurological disease that raises questions

2023-04-22 09:17:12

The American football scandal Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is “a progressive deterioration of neurons, in which, as with Alzheimer’s disease, the Tau protein is involved”, explains Pr Ceccaldi, neurologist at AP-HM .These lesions were described in the early 2000s by the American neurologist Bennet Omalu, who revealed the ravages of ETC in American football (its history is traced in the film Alone once morest all), before a British study, conducted in 2017, shows that out of 111 National Football League players who died prematurely, 110 of them were affected by ETC… Today, Bennet Omalu warns: “No child under 18 years should not hit the ball with the head”, estim

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