Women’s Soccer Players Worried About TBI and The Health of Their Brains

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,…

A TBI Resets a Girl’s Memory to the Same Day, Every Day, (over and over and…) She Hopes for a TBI Recovery and New Memories.

A TBI Resets a Girl’s Memory to the Same Day, Every Day, (over and over and…) She Hopes for a TBI Recovery and New Memories.

A teenager wakes up every morning thinking it is 11 June as her memory “resets” every two hours after she was kicked in the head. Riley Horner, 16, has no recollection of the day she suffered a traumatic head injury after she was hit by a student crowdsurfing at a dance. She has woken every…