Study Reveals 40 Percent of Living NFL Veterans Show Signs of Brain Injury

April 12, 2016   ·   Mike Chiari   ·   Jump to comments

A new study of recently retired NFL players revealed a potential link between playing football and suffering from traumatic brain injury, or TBI, according to data released Monday. 
There was evidence of TBI in more than 40 percent of the 40 retired NFL veterans examined as part of the study, according to Frank Conidi, director of the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology, per Alice Park of Time.
The 40 players involved played for an average of seven years apiece in the NFL, and all have been retired for less than five years. According to Conidi's data, 45 percent of the players had issues with learning and memory, while 43 percent suffered damage to their brain's white matter.
Conidi conceded the results don't definitively prove playing football causes brain injury, but he does believe continued collisions are a contributing factor, per Park: "It's not the big hits, the one big concussion but more likely the repetitive banging that causes probl...

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