Over the last 15-20 years we’ve seen professional sports crack down on concussion safety, mainly the NFL, but it’s also been a issue with pro-wrestling, and boxing.
I understand that CTE has been discovered and can only be officially diagnosed after an autopsy.
HOWEVER, what the hell did people think concussions were before? I cannot understand how any brain injury could be seen as anything less than critical.
We’ve had the term “brain damage” forever. I just don’t see how people are just now understanding that a brain injury is always serious.
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It was hard to see the long term effects at first. You get “your bell rung” or concussion and you’re fine a few days later and everything seems to have healed and you get back to it. It’s only decades later that people start getting more aggressive and impulsive as a result of CTE. Might’ve been hard to connect the dots at first. I’m sure the NFL did their part to not release any information they had about the dangers of repeated concussions as well
Well the expression for a concussion was usually something like “he got his bell rung” to explain the immediate symptoms of concussion. CTE is different that a concussion though. It is caused by many concussions over time, slowly building, as we understand it now, but is often seen later in life.
So a normal guy racks up a few concussions and recovers. Then 20 years later he has real mental health problems. There was no way for them to link it to the bell ringings he got in high school football.
Basically they didnt realize these impacts and symptoms which would subside fairly quickly were having permenant impact on the brain.
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