Press Conference Scheduled For Noon Regarding Chris Henry Test Results

by Josh Kirkendall on Jun 28, 2010 11:34 AM EDT

According to a story published by ESPN's Peter Keating, at the time of his death, Chris Henry suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is the result of repeated blows to the head. According to Keating, researchers are trying to discover a link between CTE and athletes. Jake talked about this in more detail, but the summary is this: researchers believe that that CTE is linked with athletes.

On Monday around noon, a press conference is scheduled to talk about their test results on Chris Henry and, most likely, talk generally about their research. Locally, Channel 12 will air the press conference.

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This may seem really insensitive..

but can they differentiate between repeated blows to the head in football.. and repeated blows to the head from falling out of a moving vehicle? Maybe they will address this in the press conference..

by 80%OFTHETIMEIMRIGHTEVERYTIME on Jun 28, 2010 11:40 AM EDT reply actions

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chronic head trauma would lead to scar tissue replacing normal brain tissue, scar tissue is usally smaller, leaving what is called atrophy, more “dead space”, acute or fresh injuries wouldn’t leave this type of a pattern, i’m sure he had both on exam due to the nature of his death, but he obviously had enough old trauma that the nfl is going to latch onto this so they can enforce more rules to reduce the risk of brain damage in mostly receivers and qb’s in the future, this will actually be a good thing that could come from his death, hopefully this will lead to better helmets also so that we can still see the hard hits we love without risking the health of the players we also love

by whodeydoc on Jun 28, 2010 1:40 PM EDT reply actions