He played safety on the team that won the Super Bowl in the 1985 season.
We call on the NFL and NFLPA to take immediate action, including abandoning the proposal to extend the regular season to 18 games and improving the existing disability system."ĭuerson was a third-round draft choice by the Bears out of Notre Dame in 1983. "However, more needs to be done to educate current players on the risks, to enact additional rule changes that reduce risk and protect players, and to improve care for those affected by debilitating football injuries. "Commissioner Roger Goodell has taken steps to address head trauma and concussion in the league," group president Bruce Laird said in a statement. "Our Head, Neck and Spine Medical Committee will study today's findings, and as a league we will continue to support the work of the scientists at the Boston University Center and elsewhere to address this issue in a forthright and effective way."įourth & Goal, a group founded by Baltimore Colts alumni designed to assist retired NFL players, called for more education, safer rules and improved care for those already affected by football-related injuries. "We hope these findings will contribute more to the understanding of CTE," the NFL said in a statement. The center has been aggressively researching head trauma in sports, and has received a $1 million gift from the NFL, which it has pushed for better treatment of concussions. But he said it's also important to address hits to the head that don't cause concussions.ĬSTE, created in 2008, is a collaboration between the BU School of Medicine and the Sports Legacy Institute, headed by Nowinski. However, he never was admitted to a hospital for them, Stern said. "We accept this gift with great humility, as we are mindful of other families that have lost loved ones and still bear the burden of unanswered questions."ĭuerson had at least 10 concussions in his NFL career, according to his family, and lost consciousness during some. "We have been given the gift of closure," said his son, Tregg. Duerson's former wife, daughter and three sons attended the news conference. "The likelihood is that if he hadn't had the CTE, he wouldn't have developed those symptoms that he was experiencing at the end of his life and perhaps he wouldn't have been compelled to end his life."Ĭantu said that such results normally are published first, but the Duerson family wanted them released earlier. Robert Stern.ĭuerson's case was "moderately advanced," McKee said. He shot himself in the chest, "presumably" to preserve his brain for study, said Chris Nowinski, co-director of the CSTE. He left a note asking that his brain be given to the NFL's Brain Bank. The body of Duerson, who was 50, was found in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., on Feb. "Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease," McKee said, "and he has severe involvement of all the structures that affect things like judgment, inhibition, impulse control, mood and memory." Former Notre Dame and Bears defensive back Dave Duerson had brain damage when he committed suicide.
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The CSTE Brain Bank has the brains of more than 70 athletes and military veterans, with football players comprising more than half of the athletes.ĭuerson played safety in the NFL for 11 seasons, seven with the Chicago Bears, and was chosen for four Pro Bowls before retiring in 1993. The findings were announced as part of an effort conducted by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University's School of Medicine. "It's indisputable" that Duerson had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disorder linked to repeated brain trauma, Dr.
BOSTON - Dave Duerson, a former NFL player who committed suicide in February, had "moderately advanced" brain damage related to blows to the head, according to the researcher who made the diagnosis.
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