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10 Boxers Who Have Been Diagnosed With CTE
Boxers like Micky Ward, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Wilfred Benitez paid a heavy price for their entertainment careers, suffering ...
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Jason Kelce Says He Probably Has CTE—But Is There Any Way to Spot the Condition?
While most people associate CTE with blows to the head during football, the disease has also been found in the brains of ...
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Boxing and the brain
Whilst there exists great controversy regarding the ethics of boxing, one of the key medical issues is the risk of a boxer developing CTE either during or after his boxing career. Recent evidence ...
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Jon Burnett, longtime weatherman for CBS Pittsburgh, dies at 71
Athletes in a number of contact sports, including football, hockey and boxing have been diagnosed with CTE over the years, per Boston University. It was first observed in boxers in the early 20th ...
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What is the evidence for chronic concussion-related changes in retired athletes: behavioural, pathological and clinical outcomes?
Key words included CTE, dementia pugilistica ... A case report of a champion boxer with cognitive decline highlights these issues of multifactorial causation of cognitive problems.45 Recently, a ...