Women’s Soccer Players Worried About TBI and The Health of Their Brains
CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease found in people with a history of repetitive brain trauma. Most of the brains belonged to men. To football players. Less than 5 percent belonged to women. Yet, we know that female athletes have endured repetitive blows to the head, too. Girls soccer players, in particular,…