Cte

Medical Q&A [Moderated]
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I’m wondering if there is any in depth knowledge yet of “thresholds” for cte I guess is the best way I can put it. Do we know exactly the force it takes to start developing it? Or is it an everyone is different kinda thing.

I ask because I’ve recently started doing striking along with my normal wrestling and bjj classes. Nothing crazy, not going all out or anything like that but I’m wondering if there’s possible issues with even light sparring.

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I suspect there is significant individual variation here, but I do not have much expertise in this area, unfortunately. Sorry about that.

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I wrote about this a bit in the October 2019 BMR, but we don’t really know if there are thresholds for developing traumatic brain injuries with respect to the magnitude of the forces and yes, there does appear to be interindividual variability. Yes, there are risks with contact sports for TBI and potentially, CTE.

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Thanks Jordan I’ll try to find that.

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Thanks for the link Jordan !