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Wow. Pretty interesting. Wonder what the future of football is?
Based on a new study to be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), specialized MRI scans performed on high school football players--after just one season--revealed changes in brain tissue which correlated with exposure to head impacts.
"It's important to understand the potential changes occurring in the brain related to youth contact sports," said Elizabeth Moody Davenport, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, who led this analysis. "We know that some professional football players suffer from a serious condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. We are attempting to find out when and how that process starts, so that we can keep sports a healthy activity for millions of children and adolescents."
The study evaluated 24 players from a North Carolina high school football team who wore a helmet equipped with the Head Impact Telemetry System(HITS) during all practices and games. The specially designed helmets were internally equipped with six specialized sensors known as accelerometers that measure the magnitude, location and direction of a hit.
A computer then analyzed uploaded data from the helmets.
"We saw changes in these young players' brains on both structural and functional imaging after a single season of football," said Davenport.
Brain Abnormalities Linked To Head Impacts After Just One Season Of High School Football"It's important to understand the potential changes occurring in the brain related to youth contact sports," said Elizabeth Moody Davenport, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, who led this analysis. "We know that some professional football players suffer from a serious condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. We are attempting to find out when and how that process starts, so that we can keep sports a healthy activity for millions of children and adolescents."
The study evaluated 24 players from a North Carolina high school football team who wore a helmet equipped with the Head Impact Telemetry System(HITS) during all practices and games. The specially designed helmets were internally equipped with six specialized sensors known as accelerometers that measure the magnitude, location and direction of a hit.
A computer then analyzed uploaded data from the helmets.
"We saw changes in these young players' brains on both structural and functional imaging after a single season of football," said Davenport.