Denver (KDVR) – While football players take the youth to the field ready to play under Friday nights, doctors in the metro area issue a warning speech.
“Sometimes we do not do better things for us in an interest now and do not really think about those long -term consequences that you can. So in general, I think, again, I am excited for the future,” said the neurologist with Oshilth, Megan Branson.
Branson says the developments in researching the long -term effects of CTE, or chronic painful encephalopathy are encouraging. This disease is progressive and degenerative and is related to the history of repeated head shock.
However, more, you should do more to understand the effect that difficult, repeated strikes on the field can make on the brain. Adding players with pre -existing medical conditions can make the condition worse.
“People who suffer from anxiety and depression before concussion-which often tends to exacerbate post-concussion. I think these are all things that we should take seriously, and I really try to try to talk about these things,” Branson said.
But concussion developments go beyond sport. Fabio Garcia, head of neurosurgery with Denver Health, says they can get to know what happened in the past they can get a vision for the future.
“Well, we see this everywhere, even when not only with shock, with this sport, but even with the normal, as you know, a car accident, a car accident, things become safer and safer. I think it, as you know, we need to continue. We are not there yet. We need to do better.”
As far as the following steps go, Garcia says that education and awareness are essential.
Garcia said: “Go there and say, well, that’s what happened. “I think the first number (barrier) talks about a problem. It does not make you weak.”