CTE study: 41% of fighters TES positive; age, KOs, fights are risk factors

Dec 20 2022 by Bloody Elbow

 
Age and the number of repeated head injuries put combat sports athletes at risk of CTE | Photo by Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

A recent study of 176 combat sports athletes looked into CTE risk factors

A recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that two significant factors that could lend themselves to combat sports athletes developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Those two factors are age and the number of repeated head...

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