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Photo Credit Denis Poroy/Getty Images Sport/Getty ImagesJunior Seau committed suicide in his home May 2nd. When something tragic like this happens,http://alphabetaschool.in/html/nupoad.html, when it a 12 time NFL All Pro and a beloved figure, the collective reaction is: Why? The debate begins. Some think repeated brain trauma from playing in the NFL caused his mind to deteriorate. Others speculate that Seau inability to leave the game behind may have contributed to severe depression. Some even think he may have known on some deeper level that his brain was to blame that he shot himself in the chest so his gray matter would be left intact for post mortem examination.
So much noise. Enough to nearly drown out another side effect a positive side effect   of a high profile tragedy like this: It not just about Junior Seau. All athletes at all levels will benefit from the attention his case brings to long term health and safety issues. Example: The media rush to tell the story forces new terminology into society lexicon. In this case, CTE.
/ _1 {  U) `  d; C1 _  t; U& yA month ago,http://usedlappy.com/html/rafthowo.html, CTE could been a phone company. But now both sports fans and the medical community are talking in depth about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition that causes progressive degeneration of the brain tissue from repeated pounding. Symptoms include memory loss, confusion, aggression, and depression. But here the catch: Those symptoms may not appear until years after an athlete has quit his or her game. Here another catch: No test can detect it. It can only be found during a post mortem exam. Recently,http://hoteldholamaru.in/images/gallery/rprizes.html, CTE has been discovered in 20 other deceased former NFL players, several NHL enforcers, and boxers.
Life After The Whistle Blows
# K: ~# u/ U9 L: v  kA second factor plays a major role in the depression of athletes: Retirement, either voluntary or forced because of injury. Many retired pro athletes are simply not prepared for life after sports and find it difficult to adjust to staying home. Diapers have replaced dumbbells, dogs are their new receivers, and their wives call the plays. These aren things that many would consider depression triggers, but for someone used to being in the spotlight it gets awfully dark when the lights go out for the final time.
a natural depression that happens after retirement, says Sean Tufts, a former linebacker for the Carolina Panthers. can think of a handful of players at each level, college or pro, that didn know how to cope with being done with football. Making a leap from the biggest stage in the world to having no direct path is often times too much for people to take. knew seven football players that committed suicide after they were done playing. He wants more programs for players exiting the league and educating them on how to deal with the void that follows. wife calls them the lost years,http://usedlappy.com/html/rectory.html, he says. to find what can replace the biggest stage in the world. You can go straight to a cube broadcasting or coaching can replace the fix the NFL creates.
0 M* u) u$ e5 r( a4 L: g& kCristina Versari,http://music.dzonehub.com/moviereview/theme.html, sports psychologist and Director of Sports Psychology Program at San Diego University for Integrative Studies,http://sanskriti.dzonehub.com/css/upcomingshows.html, has studied the psychology of athletes for more than 20 years and says every athlete goes through some level of depression after they retire and it usually takes four to eight years for them to get used to life without sports. Players who prepare for the day they retire usually have a smoother transition, but most players don stay in the game,http://propertyatajmerroad.dzonehub.com/news/themeprevie.html, they have to focus on the game and not on what they going to do next, says Versari. almost like a defense mechanism, they have to stay focused on the game and they have to deny the reality that their career is going to end. problems waiting for players who don prepare can come from all angles and without a support system to help them get through these obstacles depression is inevitable. Weight gain is common and divorce rates rise 50 percent after retirement, according to Versari.
0 t! H3 w7 @, Lthey home and they want to have a role in that family,http://music.dzonehub.com/moviereview/themein.html, but they been gone for 10 years. Now they struggle to find a place for themselves and there a lot of conflict with their wife, she says.
' g; D1 x, c5 ^3 V5 Q! }$ X% `The bond between teammates is also something that seems to change overnight after retirement. Former players tend to move back to their hometown and become isolated from the people they were used to seeing every day. players don want anything to do with them because it reminds them of the reality that their career is also going to end and they don want to deal with that, Versari says.
; u6 H0 K4 M$ R! W- F9 Q3 A: TSDUIS is the only university in the country that has a sports psychology program out of the psychology department, and Versari thinks there needs to be more sports psychologists with proper training available for athletes as they retire. The NBA and NFL both have player development programs, but many of the people working on those programs are former players. Versari likes the idea of having former players work with players because they can understand what they going through,http://35acconsultant.com/js/sezcraft.html, but stresses that they need proper training in order to counsel them properly.
Depression is an especially telling symptom. The condition is only seen in about five percent of the general population, but in head trauma patients that number reaches 40 percent, according to Science Daily. A 2008 study by the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University investigated whether functional changes resulting from concussions could lead to depression symptoms. When looking at brain activity in the frontal lobe,http://diliptravel.com/css/ryankerrigan.html, researchers found that people with concussions showed a lack of activation in that region of the brain, whereas activation in healthy brains was normal. There is also a correlation between how severe the concussion symptoms are and the amount of brain activity in that region.
looked at this in athletes who had concussions and we looked at those that were depressed and those that weren depressed, Ptito says. that were depressed had the same activation patterns that we see in non athletes with major depression. Add up the sheer number of hits. He took hits on every play at varying levels of intensity. He took hits in practice. Thousands of hits,http://erp.dzone.co.in/images/supdbanner.html, again and again.
Now do the math on the average kid who starts playing football at,http://usedlappy.com/html/rafthowohop.html, say, age six. If he plays through high school, while the early hits won be so intense, they will add up. If he plays through college, that 16 years of pounding. And what if he plays other high contact sports like lacrosse or hockey? Mixed martial arts?
Scary numbers,http://www.jobs.dzonehub.com/HelloWorld/tate.html. And this is not a person who will ever make money playing football. This is a person who has to make money in their chosen career for a lifetime.
Changing the Game
Now we see how Junior Seau case isn just about Junior Seau. And this is where the debate intensifies. What if, for example,http://beauty.dzonehub.com/pic/sitorvote.html, a father who played high school and college ball puts his son in the local youth league. Then, at age 12, the boy has his first concussion. Should his playing days be over? Will a father who loves the game make that call?
One former player,http://seoinjaipur.dzonehub.com/upload/update.html, Carolina Panthers linebacker Sean Tufts sees the football community as split into two camps regarding brain trauma. Half look at it as part of the game, an acceptable risk. The other half is more alarmed by how devastating these injuries can be.
' H2 _- m! F' K) V$ V9 v) c- Pare always these jokes that I use my head too much or whenever you forgot something it was easy to dismiss it as I took too many blows to the head, Tufts says. a long time that was a playful joke and now people are starting to connect those dots and realize that this is a symptom of a much bigger and systemic problem. off the TV happened when your vision would shrink and then suddenly expand after hitting someone. Or maybe you had rollies after a hard hit and your vision felt like it was rolling forward. Baseline cognitive testing is now used in many leagues at all ages. The testing (one brand is called ImPact) happens preseason to establish a player baseline level of brain function. If he takes a big hit, or shows concussion symptoms, he re tested to see how much he been affected, and when he might be able to return to the field.
, s$ W- a* R! I1 s$ X# ]+ ~, w5 kBut what about the long term effects of traumatic brain injuries? Currently there is no way to test someone for CTE, but Ptito is hopeful that with new tools, such as a higher resolution MRI, doctors will be able to diagnose this condition before it too late. Meanwhile, he suggests the NFL could consider having each player go through a functional neuro imaging scan to look for signs of concussions that conventional testing can show. The test runs around $4,000 per person, according to Ptito. Not that much when you consider a player salary. But that doesn help the average kid on the average football field.
For those kids, even a mild concussion is now reason enough to question whether they should ever put on pads again. They have entire lives ahead of them, and the risk of having more concussions increases exponentially every time they have one. Even worse: show that the more concussions you have, the more likely you will be depressed later in life,http://www.dzone.co.in/rs-plugin-bablu/stocking.html, Ptito says.
4 Y- \3 N" l' w/ f4 j+ R( x8 ^Junior Seau brain has not yet been examined for evidence of CTE. But no matter what medical examiners discover, it ironic that after a legendary career on the field, Seau tragic final years could provide a positive legacy to players of all ages as awareness, education, and policy changes emerge from this debate to help minimize the risks of brain trauma on playing fields everywhere.相关的主题文章：
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