First female athlete diagnosed with the brain disease CTE | 7.30
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Adelaide Crows premiership player Heather Anderson has become the first professional female athlete to be diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after a landmark diagnosis at the Australian Sports Brain Bank. Elias Clure reports.
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Maybe contact sports do need a rethink. CTE is horrific.
Of course they do. This is nuts.
Yes! I experienced a mild concussion in youth sports 🏈🏈 ...After, helmet to helmet contact, my decision to leave American football🏈🏈🏈 was made
Over the previous few years I had chronic anxiety, depression and a suicidiality that just lived in my brain like a bad housemate. It was chronic, unbearable and inside myself I believed that I would eventually die by suicide. It felt inevitable. I didn't know what was wrong with me.
I eventually watched a podcast about CTE and such, and connected that when I was younger I had a few concussions (2 of them hospitalisations). After considering that, I went to a clinic that specialises in brain health and head injury recovery for sportspeople etc. Now my life is completely different.
The anxiety, depression, suicidal tendencies... All gone. I went from living in a constant state of brain fog, to being able to study again (now at university), and am building a positive, happy, fulfilling life with my wife. I don't know if CTE is a factor for me, but as a minimum, it shows how bad brain injuries can be, especially if undiagnosed or monitored post-incident.
Absulately same here .chronic depression and anxiety ,poor concentration and suicidal thought in every 2 days
Tell me where I can get help, please. I'm a female, and have had multiple concussions, each causing more problems, more pain, more depression.
@@chinookvalley - I went to a clinic in Calgary called CAP Health which does concussion-based work. Just need to look for a clinic near you related to it. In the end it meant becoming VERY serious with my habits, which eventually improved my condition.
please answer me, are you sure your depression and anxiety were caused by the concussions? And how was the treatment?
Hey, I just looked up a concussion or brain health clinic in my city. I just went there for a chat and they discussed and did some cognitive testing. It at least gave me answers and a path forward.
I found that the concussion was one of two main contributors. One was the health, the other was life circumstances. As well as improving my brain health over a long period, making strong decisions to improve and clarify my circumstances also contributed.
No reference or credit to Dr. Bennett Omalu? Come on...
Exactly..After all Dr.Omalu was the one who found the link between cte and football..Not to take away from anyone else..But Dr.Omalu is the one who put it at the forefront..
I’m so very sorry for the loss of your brave daughter. May God bless her for her courage and determination and may God console and heal you as you grieve for her. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
i had a classmate who had been a downhill skier and had a fair amount of bad crashes. She had this and ended up committing suicide after going back to school to complete her masters. She had been the first one to welcome me into our program at school with a bunch of others. I was working in another city (specialty field) with the rest of them when we found out. I tell you going to the wake was like being in an completely empty room but somehow it is filled with people. Just this overwhelming sense of a hole. It still makes me sad now. I happened to be in the same city as our university just before this happened and tried to stop in there several times to see her but always missed her. I still really regret that. I'll often find myself thinking about her every now and again when I'm working. So many better people get taken out and I'm still here. Doesn't seem right.
How did you know she had CTE?
IT IS ridiculous that Even severe cte cannot Be diagosed while living.
Imagine the cost to professional sports teams if CTE could be diagnosed while a player is alive?
@@naeberli9120 people are still important
You are very right, CTE cannot be diagnosed until time of death.
I'm a Carolina Panthers fan and am so glad Luke Kuechly and Dan Morgan retired early after horrific concussions. Hopefully it will prevent them from getting CTE.
Kids starting contact sports like US football when they're 5 years old, can't be good. We lost a close family friend a few years ago to CTE (suicide) and it's horrifying. The show forgot to mention that you can't diagnose cte until you're dead. The majority of people (if not all) who have been diagnosed, died by suicide.
How did you know she had CTE?
Maybe it's time to reconsider contact sports. CTE is awful.
That’s like most every sport bro we ain’t giving up what we love to do no matter the risk! If anything they should figure out how to treat it better than to get rid of sports cuz the sports aren’t going to go away
@@billyjean8057 If you live in affluent suburbs do you see any kids taking up boxing? Its been known for decades that boxing leads to brain damage. IT is going to happen to football and soccer should make some rule changes as well.
In all of my Shaolin, kung fu schools since 1984, I have never allowed sparring. There was never even a broken bone in any of my hundreds of students. I created push hands tournaments which promote balance and coordination, but do not allow kicking or punching. These are fun, develop skills, and both players are always friends and laughing at the end of each competition.
Pretty sure I have it. Keto helps. Low inflammation helps. Time is the enemy.
When I found this video. Before I watched it I was wondering which sport did she played for her to had CTE.
I really hope it raises awareness because she only had low grade CTE when American Male NFL Football 🏈 players have been committing suicide for 20-30 years because of CTE. But it's only really been studied heavily here for 15 years. One of my close friends was one of the very famous players from the U.S. that committed suicide and when they say diagnosed they can only diagnose you after death and do an actual autopsy and brain scan. That's why the scientist are trying to get athlete's with concussion prone sports to donate their brains after death for research to prevent CTE from happening after a certain amount of serious grade concussions as well as make the NFL helmets as safe as we can possibly make them. A very hard tackle in American Football 🏈 (NFL) is about equal to a 35 mph car crash because your body stops so suddenly and then your brain keeps moving and hits the inside of your skull which causes the concussion. Thank you 60 minutes Australia for doing this story bringing awareness to CTE because it has affected me very closely with a life long friend who was and always will be an NFL Hall of Famer. To the young lady who lost her life because of CTE my thoughts are with her family and the crazy thing is they said she had very low grade CTE my close friend had very high grade CTE but after he retired he was battling really horrible depression even starting before he died but he was one of the most famous players to have committed suicide from that point in the NFL but he hid his depression very well. A lot of people in the U.S. may know the player I'm talking about with him playing for the San Diego Chargers,Dolphins and New England Patriots.
What's his name ?
What's his name ?
@@mtsestudos7145 Junior Seau
@@mtsestudos7145 Junior Seau
I wouldn’t be surprised that there would be others out there around the world, un diagnosed. But I also wouldn’t be surprised that more and more women may eventually be diagnosed with of course the increase of women playing full contact sports in professional leagues. The silent sleepers on this would be the women who play in amateur leagues.
In order to “ confirm “ CTE the patient must have their brain cross sectioned ! In other words a positive CTE diagnosis can ONLY be performed on a brain of a deceased person otherwise it is pure speculation.
She took her own life.
Now they finally include women in this study, shes definitely not the firsr. Just the first they allowed in🙄. Bet if they studied absuse survivors they would have some cte there
Its started already such a waste sorry for your loss.
Contact sport Man or woman they know the risks,their not forced to play,accepted the risks & lost
That's problem though, the younger ones really don't. They start their contact sport and fall in love with it, become deadly passionate yet believe brain damage is the same as the rest of the body. That you just rest it up, suck it up and you can go again. The youngsters, and even most parents don't know much depth at all.
When they can test it on the living then we will really know the risk. Precautions should be taken now. For example I was a D1 college soccer player. I would not recommend any player practice heading as much as I did 40 years ago. I don't have the symptoms of depressive and headaches but my memory is not what it used to be.
wth if you play contact sports you gonna get CTE so why ppl pretend they don't know what gonna happen , accept the risk and play simple dont then sue later and play the victim
Our family notes your expression of compassion at this difficult time of public grieving. We would appreciate if you would consider pledging to donate your brain upon your cessation, so that the researchers could try to get to the bottom of what happened to yours. 🧠
@@user-fed-yum I sure as hell wont be killing myself so its gonna be a long wait
@@factor2634 Choose your words wisely.
CTE is only just recently known about. Most people are affected already. From here on in, everyone knows the risks.
@@debuthunter5389Parents/guardians must be fully informed about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. In 2002, it was discovered in the brain of Pittsburgh Steeler, Mike Webster, by Dr. Bennet Omalu. In 2006, it was discovered in the brain of Eric Pelly, a high school athlete.
In 2023, the major focus is still on the professional athletes in the NFL. These athletes started as student athletes. It is time to focus on the brain health of our youth.