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CTE is caused by repetitive head trauma like those sustained from contact sports, military combat, domestic abuse victims and individuals who self-inflict injury due to head banging behavior (Baughs, 2014).
About Us
Our Mission
To help create awareness and prevent CTE in future athletes by providing a resource for understanding this degenerative brain disease, how it is caused, and how it can be stopped.
Our Goal
To inform individuals on CTE and raise funds to promote research, preventative and treatment measures to further explore and eventually instigate. This will ultimately lead to better treatment options for those suffering with early onset of CTE as well as informing individuals of the dangers involved with repetitive head trauma.
How You Can Help
Get Educated
Become aware of the disease.It is important to know how typical symptoms present and how to alleviate them, and warning signs of complications will help you and your loved one better communicate through navigating treatment if treatment is an option.
Listen & Give Encouragement
Allow for open communication and a safe space to talk and let them know how brave and strong they are. Validating their progress and efforts leads to better health.
Ask What They Need
Ask them what they need or how you can help instead of assuming. Help your loved one in the way they need it most. By making assumptions, you may run the risk of offending them or make them feel helpless.
Treatment Options
There is a need for a more clear disease pathophysiology, imaging and/or biomarker- based tests to diagnose CTE in its early stages of development. In 2013, Turner proposed a “potential work-flow for implementation of both imaging and biomarker-based studies for improving the understanding of the role of concussive and sub-concussive impacts play in long-term disease development”. However, we can try to:
- Reduce head trauma
- Improving equipment
- Ban hits to the head / tackles from the back
- Possible inhibition of monoacylglycerol lipase
Initial brain injury may not be preventable, however there is an optimal window post initial injury where a timely intervention may be able to reduce secondary brain damage due to inflammation (Zang, 2015). This key window of opportunity may eventually lead to the prevention of CTE in individuals with repeated mild head trauma, though further trials are in order.
CTE Recognition Foundation 