Football player is first woman athlete diagnosed with CTE
Heather Anderson was a healthy, active young woman who played team sports since she was 5.
“It’s a real red flag that now women are participating [in contact sports] just as men are, that we are going to start seeing more and more CTE cases in women.” “Female athletes appear to sustain more severe concussions than male athletes, due in part to a lower biomechanical threshold tolerance for head impacts,” wrote the authors of a“Additionally, concussions may … [result] in worse symptoms and amenorrhea [absence of a menstrual period]. Although females are more likely to report concussions than males, underreporting still exists and may result in concussions going untreated,” the authors wrote.
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