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The Concussion Debate: Can Playing Contact Sports Cause Brain Damage?

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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CTE - What Is It?

American footballers were taking legal action against the NFL, which has cost them millions. They said that they didn't do enough to prevent something like long term effects of concussion. The allegation made against the NFL there was the result of these brains that began to be identified with this condition, CTE. Park: Is that the easy to understand background to this? A conversation that this is happening? And second of all, just tell me what CTE is going on. What is this ten for? Yeah, so that is simple.

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