The Longevity Project: Experts discuss brain health and injuries
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) impact millions of people in the United States every year, but here in the Roaring Fork Valley, the number is higher than the national average. When Allison Pattillo, The Aspen Times publisher, asked the audience at The Longevity Project...
Beyond Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)
Behind mTBI Conference from Megan Hughes
Can You Heal from TBI and CTE?
By Dr. John Hughes, DO As a TBI treatment specialist, I see a variety of patients with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) from military blast events, professional and high school sports, motor vehicle accidents, blunt traumas, or other causes. These patients...
How Can NFL Players Treat Their CTE Symptoms?
There is a cloud hanging over the start of another NFL season. Released in July, a study of 111 deceased NFL players diagnosed 99 percent of them with the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Caused by multiple concussive (or...
99 Percent Of Studied NFL Brains Diagnosed With Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
By Maxwell Strachan, Travis Waldron A new study out of Boston diagnosed a startlingly high percentage of deceased NFL players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and the numbers don’t get much better when you move on down to college players....
What can we do to protect our athletes and veterans from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) or traumatic brain injury (TBI)?
Head injuries are becoming more visible in NFL players and veterans with an increase in suicidality, mood disorders, and deaths occurring. While researchers continue to develop methods in decreasing the amount of head injuries during high risk sports, others are...
Using Hormones to Heal Traumatic Brain Injuries
By Joseph Carrington It can happen without warning: you slip in the shower and hit your head, a car swerves and hits you, a small stroke occurs and suddenly you can't speak, your mobility is limited, and your world shrinks. These are real-life examples of the...
What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
The condition known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was formerly believed to exist primarily among boxers, and was referred to as dementia pugilistica. It is a progressive degenerative disease which afflicts the brain of people who have suffered repeated...
NFL Announces Latest Partnership With International Concussion And Head Injury Research Foundation
Due to the many concussion-related issues the National Football League has been facing in recent years they are taking steps to help research and advance the science of concussions. In September of 2013, the NFL donated $30 million to the Foundation for National...
