A Female Athlete Diagnosed With CTE For The First Time In History

With the developing technology, hundreds of years of experience and new techniques, the sports world has become more competitive than ever before. Athletes who want to achieve great success in this field to push human limits continues.

This competitive environment can bring more damage, especially in sports where body-to-body contact is involved. Scientists are aware of this situation the most concrete proof revealed.

For the first time in history, CTE was detected in a female athlete:

The Australian Sports Brain Bank, the medical research laboratory in Australia, said for the first time in history a female athlete “chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)“It has been detected. CTE occurs with multiple strong blows to the head, causing the nerve cells in the brain to gradually decrease over time.

The diagnosis of CTE can only be made after an autopsy of the person’s brain after death. The first female athlete diagnosed with CTE in history, died in November. 28-year-old Australian football player Heather Anderson it happened.

Heather Anderson was competing in rugby league even when she was five years old. She turned to Australian football at an early age and continued her career in this field. Anderson competed in the top league league, AFL Women. She served as a nurse in the Australian Army following a career-ending injury.

Heather Anderson’s death was not related to KTE. former athlete, by committing suicide ended his life. His brain was donated to scientists at the request of his family.

The diagnosis of CTE also revealed some shortcomings in the scientific world:

Anderson’s diagnosis of CTE also revealed some shortcomings in women’s sport. The lack of research on female athletes in the world of sports science and medicine was brought up.

Women may be more prone to CTE:

Another issue that came to the fore with the diagnosis was the predisposition of men and women to RTE. Although there is no definite opinion about CTE yet, one of the factors that cause CTE concussion There is increasing evidence about

This evidence suggests that women are more prone to concussions and may experience more severe symptoms than men.