Worried about CTE killing MMA? Media likely overstating dangers - scientists weigh in

[2004 account]

I find myself re-working and re-using this quote constantly. RESPECT.

Respect buddy. Long live Saku

 

[USAUSA1]

Mma can't die, it's a worldwide sport

 

[franklinstower]

I tell everyone with even a shred of intelligence to stay AWAY from MMA and save their brain. There is no way it is worth sacrificing your health to be a fighter unless you KNOW you can get in and out quick and be done with it and you can't know that.

 

[Dragonslayer82]

Ha, still triggered by Chaos!

Butthurt incel inbred racist maga Colby fans, coming out.
Thank you good sir. Your kind have been getting awfully quiet lately. Make America Great again, oops I forgot isn't the President getting impeached and getting kicked out from office?
By the way, do you recognise who the guy below is? trying to hide underneath his jacket?

Ha, still triggered by Chaos!

 

[DanAndroid]

Are you telling me that the Will Smith movie was just a propaganda tool?

 

[dildos]

The greatest trick scientists ever pulled was convincing the world cte is real.

 

[linch]

Don't post YouTube videos as a proof of anything.
If those professors conducted any research that proves cte is not real, we should be able to find them.
On the other hand, the science has already proven cte:
"In 2005 forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, along with colleagues in the Department of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh, published a paper, "Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player", in the journal Neurosurgery, based on analysis of the brain of deceased former NFL center Mike Webster. This was then followed by a paper on a second case in 2006 describing similar pathology, based on findings in the brain of former NFL player Terry Long.

In 2008, the CSTE at Boston University at the BU School of Medicine started the CSTE brain bank at the Bedford VA Hospital to analyze the effects of CTE and other neurodegenerative diseases on the brain and spinal cord of athletes, military veterans, and civilians[9] To date, the CSTE Brain Bank is the largest CTE tissue repository in the world.[
In February 2011, Dave Duerson committed suicide,[52] leaving text messages to loved ones asking that his brain be donated to research for CTE.[53] The family got in touch with representatives of the Boston University center studying the condition, said Robert Stern, the co-director of the research group. Stern said Duerson's gift was the first time of which he was aware that such a request had been made by someone who had committed suicide that was potentially linked to CTE.[54] Stern and his colleagues found high levels of the protein tau in Duerson's brain. These elevated levels, which were abnormally clumped and pooled along the brain sulci,[9] are indicative of CTE.[55]

In July 2010, NHL enforcer Bob Probert died of heart failure. Before his death, he asked his wife to donate his brain to CTE research because it was noticed that Probert experienced a mental decline in his 40s. In March 2011, researchers at Boston University concluded that Probert had CTE upon analysis of the brain tissue he donated. He is the second NHL player from the program at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy to be diagnosed with CTE postmortem.[56]"

 

[TheLastEmperorReurns]

There’s no way that repetitive head trauma causes brain damage, that just doesn’t make sense.

 

[TidWell]

Video here;



Cliffs;

In recent years CTE has received a disproportionate amount of criticism in the North American media, particularly in the USA and Canada.

Scientists are now pushing back against the media narrative. Suicides have now been reported amongst people who have mis self diagnosed with CTE despite actually having treatable conditions.

CTE diagnosis is subjective. The Jordan Parsons case scared a lot of people because he had few fights and few tko losses. Other scientists might not have been able to find anything in the brain of Parsons.

The sport with the highest rate of concussions is horse riding, yet there is little talk of CTE in that sport.

Havent watched it yet but
I wonder if its the same hand picked scientists paid for by the NFL who are saying CTE is being overstated.lol

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

No different than how everyone has autism and depression and bizarre sexualities these days. It's just the hip thing to do.

 

[mjmj]

Don't post YouTube videos as a proof of anything.
If those professors conducted any research that proves cte is not real, we should be able to find them.
On the other hand, the science has already proven cte:
"In 2005 forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, along with colleagues in the Department of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh, published a paper, "Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player", in the journal Neurosurgery, based on analysis of the brain of deceased former NFL center Mike Webster. This was then followed by a paper on a second case in 2006 describing similar pathology, based on findings in the brain of former NFL player Terry Long.

In 2008, the CSTE at Boston University at the BU School of Medicine started the CSTE brain bank at the Bedford VA Hospital to analyze the effects of CTE and other neurodegenerative diseases on the brain and spinal cord of athletes, military veterans, and civilians[9] To date, the CSTE Brain Bank is the largest CTE tissue repository in the world.[
In February 2011, Dave Duerson committed suicide,[52] leaving text messages to loved ones asking that his brain be donated to research for CTE.[53] The family got in touch with representatives of the Boston University center studying the condition, said Robert Stern, the co-director of the research group. Stern said Duerson's gift was the first time of which he was aware that such a request had been made by someone who had committed suicide that was potentially linked to CTE.[54] Stern and his colleagues found high levels of the protein tau in Duerson's brain. These elevated levels, which were abnormally clumped and pooled along the brain sulci,[9] are indicative of CTE.[55]

In July 2010, NHL enforcer Bob Probert died of heart failure. Before his death, he asked his wife to donate his brain to CTE research because it was noticed that Probert experienced a mental decline in his 40s. In March 2011, researchers at Boston University concluded that Probert had CTE upon analysis of the brain tissue he donated. He is the second NHL player from the program at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy to be diagnosed with CTE postmortem.[56]"

No one said it doesn't exist. The point here is that there's almost nothing known about it's ACTUAL causes and affects. Nothing.
It's all theory, yet it's discussed and reported as if it's fact.
Sort of like how you copy/pasted a Wiki page and are pretending it's scientific fact proving all we need to know about CTE.

 

[Usssssyyyy]

There’s why the majority opinions are so important.

Are you saying 70-80% of the science world is bought out by the sports world.

Many of them have no disclosed conflict of interest. That would involve a lot of under the table payments.

They only have to pay for the mainstream ones, nobody will ever hear about the others.

 

[D 1 Wrestler]

Video here;



Cliffs;

In recent years CTE has received a disproportionate amount of criticism in the North American media, particularly in the USA and Canada.

Scientists are now pushing back against the media narrative. Suicides have now been reported amongst people who have mis self diagnosed with CTE despite actually having treatable conditions.

CTE diagnosis is subjective. The Jordan Parsons case scared a lot of people because he had few fights and few tko losses. Other scientists might not have been able to find anything in the brain of Parsons.

The sport with the highest rate of concussions is horse riding, yet there is little talk of CTE in that sport.

Concussions =/ CTE you dolt which is why nobody cares about horse riding. CTE comes repeated blows that don't have to result in a concussion. NFL practices and boxing/mma sparring is where CTE develops more than the games and fight nights

 

[D 1 Wrestler]

And this highlights the problems with how the media blew the CTE shit entirely out of proportion, normal people have been convinced that any of these "symptoms" are signs of CTE. They're NOT. They're simply symptoms of being a human being with thousands of things running through your head every day. I've never played football or any contact sport, never had a concussion. These things you describe are things I've experienced my entire adult life. It's normal. Now people with head aches or that forget what they did yesterday think they have CTE.

Its not normal lol

 

[linch]

No one said it doesn't exist. The point here is that there's almost nothing known about it's ACTUAL causes and affects. Nothing.
It's all theory, yet it's discussed and reported as if it's fact.
Sort of like how you copy/pasted a Wiki page and are pretending it's scientific fact proving all we need to know about CTE.

On that wiki page, there are names of people and universities that conducted studies that proved the existence and consequences of cte. It's not a theory.
The causes and consequences are scientifically proven.
Do you have any names of universities and institutions that conducted studies that dispute the previous studies and findings about cte?

 

[Crom Cruach]

Then why are the actual scientists saying it? These aren't your average Junior Doctor, they are elite professionals in the field of Neuroscience.

Gary Solomon;



Christopher Randolph;



Professor Joe Clark;

What about Professor James Ladner

 

[Super Grover]

Are you telling me that the Will Smith movie was just a propaganda tool?

Propaganda tool for who? Like, what's the end game of this "propaganda"? Who is benefitting?

I don't think you know what propaganda is lol.

 

[SandaKicker]

On that wiki page, there are names of people and universities that conducted studies that proved the existence and consequences of cte. It's not a theory.
The causes and consequences are scientifically proven.
Do you have any names of universities and institutions that conducted studies that dispute the previous studies and findings about cte?

Here’s one paper, this was reviewed by other scientists before being published.

It’s not a viewpoint I agree with but it shows you the other end of the spectrum;

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=CTE+is+not+a+real+disease+Christopher+Randolph&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&u=#p=Zr82OK51mkgJ

Title of the paper is “CTE is not a real disease”

 

[Schaub]

You heard these fuckin' science nerds. The CTE is as fake as Elite XC.

 

[KID Yamamoto]

Would you say Colby Covington suffered CTE? He had a broken jaw and with that broken jaw he was knocked down 3 times and then rabbit punched in the back of the head loads of times. This effected him so much he ran out of the ring and then covered his head in a blanket. I'm really worried for him, as he always mouths off but he has been silent like a mouse. You think he has permanent CTE?

If you wish CTE on anyone even a guy like Colby you are a piece of shit.
This isn't a funny thing to deal with. He's a human being. Go be some liberal bitch elsewhere man. Grow up.