Ricky Williams, ex-NFL player, is fronting a doc about the physical, mental and emotional toll of an American football career ...

With serious injuries ever-present, players must prioritize their own health to advocate for safer practices on the field.

The controversial correlation between football ... dominated the National Football League (NFL) for years. Hundreds of players have been posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic ...

Twenty years ago, pathologist Bennet Omalu and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh published the first paper identifying a new disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brain of ...

On Monday, a study showed that one-third of former National Football League (NFL) players believed they had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). On Tuesday, former NFL quarterback Brett Favre ...

partners.org Background In the initial autopsy case studies of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), some ... One published epidemiological study suggests that retired National Football League ...

Key words included CTE, dementia pugilistica, punch drunk syndrome, traumatic encephalopathy ... In a study of retired National Football League (NFL) players, responses to questions regarding clinical ...

Bobby Hull, the former NHL legend with the Chicago Blackhawks, is part of an unfortunate trend being exposed in hockey with regards to CTE.

The National Football League ... failed to keep their players safe from head injuries, and he believes those injuries led to Adams’ severe case of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE.