Repetitive head impacts cause the degenerative brain disease CTE, according to a new study that will fuel calls for changes to tackling rules as well as age restrictions for contact sports.
He said that sports administrators often argued there was not enough evidence linking repeated head blows to CTE.
"That's been the party line across sport for a long time," he said. Because CTE can only be diagnosed post-mortem, and symptoms typically appear years or even decades after brain injury is sustained, proving causation has been difficult."The importance of this paper from this group is that they've said when we are not able to do [randomised controlled trials] to prove causation, let's look at these criteria.
"It gives a framework to determine if you can justify the move from observed association to causation."on concussion in sport, last updated in February 2019, states that, "the link between sport-related concussion and CTE remains tenuous.""We're hoping that the sports will take notice and hoping they will now acknowledge more seriously the risks," he said.
"We need to modify children's sport to try to reduce that exposure the same way we would smoking or drinking," Dr Pearce said.CTE has been diagnosed in people as young as 18 to 20 years old, he said.Earlier this month, the UK's Football Association announced it was trialling a ban on deliberate heading by children under 12, to come into effect in two season's time.
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