Chronic Trauma Quotes

The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.

Is a concussion going to lead to CTE? No, probably not in most cases. But if you have enough concussions over a certain amount of time, yes, then I think you can lead to CTE.

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.

The overwhelming evidence is that trauma is a major factor in CTE.

I meet with retired football players. Some are well-dressed, some are well-spoken, but when you talk to them personally, they will admit to you that they are having problems. But they are managing their problems. They have impaired memory, they're having mood problems. They are being treated by their psychiatrists.

It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.

Football is potential post-career suicide.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

The idea that just the basis of the game, repetitive hits, could bring on a cascade of issues later in life, that was - it changed the game for me.

Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary to affect regulation, self-esteem, sense of self and inter-personal functioning all goes downhill. And that's a chronic thing that's solved in an-inter personal context.