what does cte mean in football
The admission took all of two words. It came when Jeff Miller, the NFLâs senior vice president for health and safety policy, was asked by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) in a Capitol Hill round-table discussion whether there was a link between football and diseases like chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The study was funded by a $100,000 grant from the Brain Injury Research Institute, a non-profit organization founded by Bailes, Dr. Bennet Omalu, a pathologist who in 2005 identified the first case of CTE in a former NFL player, and Bob Fitzsimmons, a Wheeling, W.Va., attorney who represented late Steelers center Mike Webster, the first NFL player ...