The neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy can start early and without any signs of concussion, according a study released Thursday.
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Researchers have identified evidence of early CTE brain pathology after head impact, even in the absence of signs of concussion.

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How do you know if you had a concussion? Dr. Alina Fong P.h.D. explains how you can determine if you have post-concussion symptoms.

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After growing concern from parents and schools over sports-related brain injuries, some doctors are working to protect the brain from the inside. Contessa Brewer reports.

What is a concussion? Probably not what you think it is. In this talk from the cutting edge of research, bioengineer (and former football player) David Camarillo shows what really happens during a concussion — and why standard sports helmets don’t prevent it. Here’s what the future of concussion prevention looks like.

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It may look like Jell-O, but this brain is the same consistency as a real brain!

As Dr. Christopher Giza from UCLA demonstrates, the brain is made of soft tissue and floats in fluid inside of the skull. When the skull moves quickly, the brain can jostle around a lot, which can lead to neurological symptoms.

“Most concussions are recoverable,” Giza said.

But concussions can be difficult to identify and some people suffer more serious symptoms, particularly after multiple concussions.

Lab studies have shown a “window of vulnerability” after a first concussion, Giza said. Concussed athletes are three to six times more likely to get another concussion. If they rush back to play, their reflexes, reaction time and thinking may be slower, putting them at risk of a second concussion and longer recovery period.

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The concussion crisis in football is getting harder and harder to ignore. The sport is trying to change the rules to protect players, but danger could be too deep in its DNA.

Further reading:
PBS’ great coverage of this issue: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/
Boston University’s CTE Center: http://www.bu.edu/cte/about/what-is-cte/
League of Denial Q&A (sbnation) http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/10/9/4817818/league-of-denial-nfl-concussion-crisis-authors-interview-pbs-frontline
“Does Football have a future?” (The New Yorker) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/31/does-football-have-a-future

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“Casualties of the Gridiron” (GQ Magazine)

“Brett Favre on NFL, Concussions” (NBC Today show)
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(Inside Science) — When someone arrives at an emergency room in a coma, someone with a serious brain injury, there is a long and well-established set of processes in place that allow for doctors to rapidly evaluate, triage and manage their treatment. The procedures for evaluating people who have a milder form of traumatic brain injury, a concussion, have historically been a little less well-defined. But experts say things have gotten better in recent years.

“At this point, our emergency department colleagues are quite adept at the evaluation and management of the patient with a concussion and the proper triage and steering of those patients into the expert hands, and that is often a neurosurgeon or a neurologist. But we also have primary care physicians who have sought additional specialty training. And we now have a pretty large army in the United States of people who can properly evaluate a patient with a concussion,” said David Okonkwo, clinical director at the UPMC Brain Trauma Research Center.
“It is a heterogeneous disorder. No two concussions are alike. And we see people have issues with migraines. We see people who have issues with dizziness and vestibular problems. We see other patients who have issues with memory and cognition. And then we also see patients who have a mental health manifestation of their concussion, be it in the form of anxiety or mood disturbance. These are just a short list of an even longer list of the ways in which a concussion can manifest itself,” said Okonkwo.

Dealing with concussion is complicated by the fact that people with the injury can experience completely different symptoms. The proper identification of the exact form of concussion an individual suffers is key, the experts say, because it helps to guide treatment.

“If it’s a balance-related issue, then you work on balance therapy. If it’s a visual-related issue, you work on visual therapy,” said Mark Proctor, neurosurgeon-in-chief at Boston Children’s Hospital.
For the majority of folks, treatment for a concussion starts with rest. The question of how long to rest has also evolved in recent years.

“So there used to be this concept of brain rest being, well, you put a child in a dark room until every symptom is gone. And it was discovered through some work at our hospital that that’s not always the right — well, clearly that’s not the best way to treat them. There’s a real benefit to near-total rest for about two to three days. But you don’t have to wait till someone’s completely asymptomatic before you get them out, you get them back to school, etc., because there’s other determinates such as social isolation and depression that start to factor in if you keep them out for too long,” said Proctor.

Proctor and his colleagues treat 400 to 500 mostly sports-related injuries every month at the brain injury center he directs. His experience there and the experience of doctors at other hospitals suggest a mostly good prognosis.

“For most people who sustain a concussion, there can be an expectation of the spontaneous resolution of symptoms and the spontaneous resolution of the problem over the course of days to a few weeks,” said Okonkwo.

“Eighty, 90 percent will be better in 10 to 14 days. And really no treatment is necessary other than the rest. What really is the vexing problem is that sort of 10 to 15 percent where those symptoms go on for a prolonged period of time,” said Proctor.

However, it’s very hard to predict who is going to be fine in two weeks and who isn’t. One of the challenges is that there is no specific biological test for concussion.

“We see this in so many other fields of medicine, where if you have a blood test that would clearly show that you had a concussion, that would be an enormous asset,” said Okonkwo.

Nor are there imaging biomarkers — ways of spotting a concussion on an MRI or CT scan. But many tools are now moving through development.

“We can have a reasonable expectation in the next two to three years of things crossing that FDA clearance hurdle and being put to use in routine clinical practice,” said Okonkwo.

For now, coaches and trainers have different forms of assessment tools. Cognitive tests can indicate if there’s a problem to determine if a player needs to be taken off the field, and taken to a doctor for further evaluation. Another advance that doctors hope for are better ways to treat specific types of brain injuries and concussions. There are still no existing FDA-approved drugs for the management of brain injury.

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NBC’s senior medical correspondent Dr. John Torres joins TODAY to discuss Bob Saget’s cause of death, which his family says was accidental head trauma. He describes the differences in symptoms from a simple bump on the head to something more serious, and the telltale signs to look for including headaches, vision disturbance, dizziness, nausea and confusion. “There can be subtle signs that build up over time,” Dr. Torres says.

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Dr. Nicole Marcantuono, a pediatric specialist in the Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, is an expert on concussions in children. In this video, she talks about how much rest might be needed after a concussion.
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A sports medicine pediatrician demonstrates an exam for concussion with a high school athlete. For more: http://www.chop.edu/concussion

Christina Master, MD, a concussion expert at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, reviews how to take a history, elicit information about the incident, and perform a physical exam in patients who may have concussion.
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The information provided in this video is from Section 12 of the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation’s Guideline for Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Prolonged Symptoms. Section 12 is on Return-to-Activity/Work/School Considerations: https://bit.ly/2VT8kFx

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Algorithm 12.1: https://braininjuryguidelines.org/concussion/fileadmin/media/algorithms/algorithm-12-1.pdf

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Joe Congeni, MD, the director of sports medicine at Akron Children’s Hospital, discusses the symptoms and treatment of concussions in this report about the multiple concussions suffered by Tommy Schadl, a former football player at McDonald schools. Originally aired on http://www.wkbn.com on January 29, 2019.
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FRONTLINE reveals the hidden story of the NFL and brain injuries.

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The National Football League presides over America’s indisputable national pastime, but the league is under assault: Thousands of former players have claimed it tried to cover up how football inflicted their long-term brain injuries. What did the NFL know, and when did it know it?

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