I feel like my generation’s lead paint is contact sports, particularly American football. Obviously concussions cause issues, that is no surprise. What is surprising is that virtually every play, even in the absence of any major contact, is causing asymptomatic sub-concussive trauma that accumulates into a degenerative taupathy decades later.
I feel like my generation’s lead paint is contact sports, particularly American football. Obviously concussions cause issues, that is no surprise. What is surprising is that virtually every play, even in the absence of any major contact, is causing asymptomatic sub-concussive trauma that accumulates into a degenerative taupathy decades later.
CTE: chronic traumatic encephalopathy
I was expecting some other schema related injury.