Wanted: Five hundred former college athletes, men and women, to answer a few questions online and in a telephone interview about their athletic history,...
concussion testing program, is eager to see where this survey leads. He anticipates a broad spectrum of results from former NCAA and NAIA athletes who played contact as well as noncontact sports. He doesn’t discriminate.Trouble remembering what you had for breakfast?I hate you, but Dr. Cullum will take you, too.“There’s a real gap in the literature in terms of what happens to aging female athletes in particular,” Cullum said.
And playing football or soccer or any sport commonly associated with concussions doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll end up with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, defined by the Boston University CTE Center as a degenerative brain disease found in athletes, military veterans and others with a history of brain trauma.
Most of the research, in fact, suggests high school, college and pro athletes turn out just fine in the long run. But it’s not exactly a comfort to parents wanting to know if their child is more susceptible than others.Actually, he did.Cullum is as personally invested as everyone else, which is why he’s grateful for the grant.
But there’s still a lot of work to do, beginning with accumulating data. So far, the study has drawn more than a hundred responses, still only a quarter of the minimum. And of those, only a fourth were women. Cullum wants equal representation. For that matter, he’d like a thousand responses. The more, the better in phase one.
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