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The Forgotten History of Head Injuries in Sports
In July, 2015, Stephen Casper, a healthcare historian, received a shocking e-mail from a workforce of legal professionals. They have been representing a team of retired hockey gamers who were suing the Nationwide Hockey League their match argued that the N.H.L. had failed to alert them about how regime head punches and jolts in hockey could set them at danger for degenerative mind problems. The legal professionals, unusually, desired to hire a historian. A sort of dementia called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., experienced not too long ago been posthumously identified in dozens of previous professional football and hockey players diagnosable only by a mind autopsy, it was thought to…
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These young female athletes died by suicide. They all had head injuries in common
CNN — Kelly Catlin and Ellie Soutter never met, but they had a lot in common. Both were commanding athletes: Catlin, a US track cyclist, was a three-times world champion and Olympic silver medalist, and Soutter, a snowboarder, was tipped to be one of Team Great Britain’s strongest contenders for the 2022 Winter Olympics, having already won a bronze medal at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival. Both were incredibly smart – Catlin was studying for a master’s degree in computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford University, while Soutter learned to speak French in about six months, according to her father. At times they almost seemed superhuman. In 2013, after…
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