Despite definitive evidence contradicting his stance, Bettman refuses to acknowledge that CTE can result from head trauma suffered while playing...
After deflecting the question for the last number of years, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman again disputed on Wednesday the link medical doctors have made between playing hockey and developing the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy .: Does the NHL acknowledge that CTE can result from head trauma suffered while playing in the NHL?
“Now you’re going off on a tangent,” Bettman said to NPR’s A Martinez. “We listen to the medical opinions on CTE and I don’t believe there has been any documented study that suggest that elements of our game result in CTE. There have been isolated cases of players who have played the game that have had CTE, but it doesn’t mean that it necessarily came from playing in the NHL.”revealed that repeated head impacts are a definitive cause of CTE.
“This innovative analysis gives us the highest scientific confidence that repeated head impacts cause CTE,” said study lead author Dr. Chris Nowinski, who is also the Concussion Legacy Foundation’s CEO. “Sport governing bodies should acknowledge that head impacts cause CTE and they should not mislead the public on CTE causation while athletes die, and families are destroyed, by this terrible disease.
In 2019, the NHL agreed to pay $18.5 million to settle a concussion lawsuit brought by 100 former players. The league spent
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