Abstract
Mild brain injury.
Highlights
Recent reports in the lay press about professional athletes, in particular in the National Football League, have led to fears about the cumulative effects of Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on children, adolescents, and college athletes and risk of Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
The main tenets of the laws include the following: inform and educate youth athletes, their parents, and guardians and require them to sign a concussion information form; removal of a youth athlete who appears to have suffered a concussion from play or practice at the time of the suspected concussion; require a youth athlete to be cleared by a licensed health care professional trained in evaluation and management of concussions before returning to play or practice
The Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have promoted that the term “concussion” be replaced by the term “mild traumatic brain injury.”
Summary
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease thought to be caused, at least in part, by repetitive brain trauma that can occur during contact sports and military participation [7, 8]. Recent reports in the lay press about professional athletes, in particular in the National Football League, have led to fears about the cumulative effects of mTBI on children, adolescents, and college athletes and risk of CTE.
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