Another post on Owen Thomas and what researchers have found.
As we discussed previously chronic traumatic encephalopathy was found by Ann McKee at Boston University. This case is EXTREMELY unique on many levels. First, Thomas was the first college aged individual to show CTE, secondly he was never diagnosed with a concussion. However, being a lineman in football he was exposed to thousands of head hits throughout his career.
Here is a video with his mother and the full story found at bu.edu;
This particular topic of concussions will be more on the “front burner” as time goes on.