Brain Damage Can Be Measured After Boxing Match
An average of ten professional boxers died every year as the result of injuries in the 1900s. Retirement is often followed by memory problems, anxiety, dementia and other manifestations of brain damage. The degree to which the brain has been damaged can be measured and monitored after a match during the phase when it is particularly vulnerable to fresh injuries. Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy have compiled evidence about head injuries from contact sports that has been accumulating over the past 85 years.The first scientific study to show that boxers sustained chronic brain damage was