Bennet Omalu was a doctor that was originated from Nnokwa, Nigeria and born on September, 1968 during the Nigerian Civil War. Dr.Omalu started medical school at the age of sixteen in the University of Nigeria, earning his degree in 1990 in Medicine and Surgery and became a very important person because he was the first to ever discover CTE which is shorten for the disease of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy which is regularly found in athletes. Doctor Bennet Omalu was the sixth child out of seven, his early years were of being a super intelligent child with a very well developed imagination. Being only twelve years old Bennet Omalu was admitted to a Federal Government College even though he dreamed of being a pilot he began medical school in the University of Nigeria at …show more content…
During his time of working there in September 2002, Doctor Omalu chose to examine the body an NFL Pittsburgh Steelers pro football player Mike Webster which was a very important autopsy in the history of sports. The player died at the age of fifty due to a heart attack and displayed a pattern of distressed behavior and Doctor Omalu was very curious at to what the players brain would reveal, discovering the clumps of tau proteins, which impair functions in accumulation which related a degenerative disease who would be found in earlier boxers called “dementia pugilistica” which was also connected to football players. After Doctor Bennet Omalu confirmed what he had found with the high faculty members in the University of Pittsburgh, was when he named this condition (CTE) chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and created “CTE found in a National Football Player” which was a paper that talked about the autopsy of a retired pro football player that revealed a neuropathological change that was consistent with a long-term concussive brain injury that would always
He Appeals to Logos when he writes, “Over the past two decades it has become clear that repetitive blows to the head in high-impact contact sports like football, ice hockey, mixed martial arts and boxing place athletes at risk of permanent brain damage….Why, then, do we continue to intentionally expose our children to this risk?” He continues by writing, “If a child who plays football is subjected to advanced radiological and neurocognitive studies, there can be evidence of brain damage at the cellular level of brain functioning…. If that child continues to play over many seasons, these cellular injuries accumulate to cause irreversible brain damage, which we know now by the name Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy,” a disease founded by Dr.Omalu in 2002. C.T.E can cause “major depression, memory loss, suicidal thoughts and actions, loss of intelligence as well as dementia later in life.” C.T.E has also been linked to “drug and alcohol abuse as children enter their 20s, 30s, and 40s.” Dr.Omalu Appeals to Ethos when he writes, “As physicians, it is our role to educate” and “protect the most vulnerable among
Dr. Bennet Omalu founder of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a highly respected and renowned physician in medical communities around the world with high-level credentials to support his many accolades. Accordingly, Dr. Omalu’s achievements resulted in him becoming a Board Certified Physician Executive, which means that he has attained prominence in the medical community by surpassing the level of expertise in his field (UCDH 2-4). In 2005, Dr. Omalu caused disruption in the National Football League (NFL) with his research linking repetitive head trauma to Neuro-degenerative disease (Omalu, Hamilton et al 40). The medical term Neuro-degenerative covers a wide-range of medical conditions that affects the nerve cells in the brain,
In the meantime, 2nd Steeler , Terry Long died. Terry Long played along Mike Webster, and was an avid steroid user and committed suicide by drinking anti freeze. Dr. Omalu found symptoms of CTE found in his brain and Omalu added another research paper towards NFL and the NFL stated he was "performing voodoo". The NFL continued to hold their belief about head injuries and dementia in NFL, and still do till this day, regardless of findings.
Brazelton attended many schools throughout his life. He attended a prep school in Alexandria, Virginia (Episcopal High School), after that he attended New Jersey’s Princeton University, following the pre-medical curriculum. While he was in Princeton he enjoyed acting a in a few number of college theatre productions. Brazelton was then considering of accepting a role on Broadway. However his parents did not like the idea of him accepting the role in Broadway. His parents said if he’d wish for them to pay for medical school in the future he would have to focus on his pre-medical studies. With an offer like that from Brazelton took his parents advice, leaving behind Broadway and concentrate in pre-medical school. Brazelton received his A.B. from Princeton in 1940, then he continued to earn his M.D. from the College of Physicians and surgeons at New York City’s Columbia University. After, that he did his internship through Columbia University, at Roosevelt Hospital. Then he served the United States Naval Reserve for a year. By 1945, Brazelton began a medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. His training as a pediatrician began in...
This monster is concussions and their long term effects on the brain. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury caused by a blow to the head or body, causing the brain to move rapidly back and forth against the skull. Sub-concussive blows to the head are hits to the head after one has already sustained a concussion. Repeated concussions and often undiagnosed concussions over years of playing can lead to long-term damage primarily identified as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. CTE is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain found primarily in athletes with a history of repetitive brain trauma, including symptomatic concussions and asymptomatic subconcussive hits to the head. CTE occurs when the Tau Protein, which holds the nerve cells in your brain together like ties on a train track, are knocked loose and are not given enough time for recovery before experiencing more of these blows. Tau Proteins are knocked loose during concussions and subconcussive hits to the head. “Research shows that your brain needs at least 12 or more hours to reset the tau proteins knocked loose before experiencing any more resistance to these so called ‘ties’” (Brain Injury Research Institute). If you do not wait for your “ties” to settle back into place after sustaining a traumatic hit to the head, the tau can become
The competitive nature of professional boxing plays an integral role in the longevity of the sport throughout earlier civilization to the modern-day era. The pivotal key in the success of boxing is the unpredictability of what each match entails, which often triggers excitement to highly devoted fans. Nonetheless, there are serious hazards associated with professional boxing (e.g., brain atrophy, and neurological and cognitive impairments). As a matter of fact, most fatalities in the ring are usually due to brain injuries such as brain hemorrhage, subdural hematoma, and brain contusions (Ryan, 1998). In hopes to witness a huge decline in head-injuries, several medical societies have consistently urged the banning of this sport. In this analysis, I will 1) examine the potential dangers of professional boxing; 2) explore the etiology, and the prevalence of CTE in professional boxers and lastly, 3) conduct a comprehensive analysis of two opposing views regarding professional boxing (i.e., to ban, or not to ban?);
Thesis Statement: Our veterans deserve for the procedures implicated in the treatment of all mild head injuries to have detailed diagnostic testing, in-depth evaluations, and follow up so there are not adverse future effects.
Dr. Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu was born in September of 1968 in Nnokwa, Nigeria. He was the sixth of seven children to a civil engineer and seamstress. Bennet was admitted to the Federal Government College in Enugu, Nigeria at 12-years-old and wanted to become a pilot. Although, at 16-years-old he started medical school at the University of Nigeria. He earned his degree in 1990.
McKee, Ann C., and Robert C. Cantu. “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Athletes: Progressive Tauopathy following Repetitive Head Injury.” Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology, U.S. National Library of Medicine, July 2009, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2945234/
Traumatic brain injury or TBI occurs when a child has a head injury that causes damage to the brain. These injuries can be caused from being hit in the head or violently shaken. The results of TBI can change how a person’s brain develops, how they act, move, and think. It can also affect how they learn in school (NICHCY, 2012). TBI can affect the way a child thinks, retains information, attention span, behavior, speech, physical activities (which includes walking), and the way a child learns.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is are complex and always have large degrees of symptoms. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) also are the cause of many different disabilities. Each person is different and in every brain injury are different, bringing a devastating change into their lives on the day of the occurrence of the brain injury. The occurrence of brain injuries are wide spread into a large spectrum of different causes and there are different degrees of TBI.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, also known as CTE, is a neurodegenerative disease where an excess amount of tau, an abnormal protein, builds up inside of the brain. According to “A critical review of chronic traumatic encephalopathy”, the disease also creates “multiple blockages of the axonal transport to the brain cells, along with white spaces in the brain on a MRI scan.”, as
A tampering rod through the head is how 25-year-old Phineas Gage became the most notable case of Traumatic Brain injury of the 19th century. With more than 1.7 million people each year who sustain an injury, why does this one case become so interesting? The reason behind this is the result of the injury. When Gage had the tampering rod penetrate his skull it completely changed his personality. From a once mild mannered individual to a foul mouth and persistent person, Gage became interesting cases in history. Gage starts us off with our topic of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) because in the US there are around 50,000 deaths, 270,000 hospitalizations, and 1.36 million who are treated and released to go home (Alzheimers Organization, 2014). A TBI is defined when an external mechanical force causes brain dysfunction.
Doctors in the 1980s-1990s didn’t have the research to determine the lifelong effects after suffering from concussions. As recently as 1994 the NFL was telling their players that there was no proof that concussions caused long-term damage to the brain. Sadly, for these studies to be observed former players had to pay the price. Junior Seau, a 12-time NFL Pro-Bowl linebacker for the San Diego Chargers and New England Patriots was diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease when we committed suicide. CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) is found in individuals with a history of concussions that cause memory loss, aggression, confusion and depression. A study done by PBS reported that 96.2 of retired football players had this condition before dying
Should the fear of brain trauma, change the rules of sports for good? Athletes have been susceptible for brain injuries since contact sports were invented. Although some are familiar with this, many people are unaware of the long term ramifications that often come with these types of injuries. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, (ALS) is a disease that is slowly plaguing our nation, starting with athletes. It is one of the fatal repercussions of repetitive head trauma, that is often overlooked. CTE, also known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is also a disease caused by head trauma that can drastically impact one’s life. CTE’s have a subset of different associated diseases such as Alzheimer's, Dementia, Parkinsons, and Huntingtons disease.