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Expert And Pro Wrestler: Head Trauma Tied To Waters’ Suicide
A story by Alan Schwarz in The New York Times cites an expert who examined late Philadelphia Eagles defensive back Andre Waters’ brain and said his suicide was tied to brain damage he suffered as a player due to concussions. Waters’ brain, said Bennet Omalu of Pitt, had degenerated to that of an 80-year-old man with similar characteristics to that of early stage Alzheimer’s victims. Had he lived, the doctor said, “Andre Waters would have been fully incapacitated” in 10 to 15 years. It’s all very sad, and a very great article, and highly recommended. It’s also recommended for this twist: The man who first offered the theory of Waters’ suicide tied to brain damage is none other than Christopher Nowinski, better known as WWE wrestler Chris Harvard. (His gimmick was that he was from Harvard, where he did graduate from.) Nowinski was forced to retire from wrestling after suffering a concussion. He contacted Omalu and Waters’ family and helped set everything in motion. (One wonders if other wrestlers will soon step to the plate and advocate their own causes. I can see Bret Hart contacting doctors about knee disease, Ric Flair advocating a cure for hair whitening, The Undertaker advocating for more fairness in coffin prices, etc.) Nowinski also offers up this quote:
He’s right, you know. |
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Owen Hart can testify as to the harmful effects of gravity.
Wow… Clearly the issue of a young man committing suicide and another young man suffering a career ending injury is something to mock.
Or maybe the problem is evident in the poorly constructed sentences of this “article”, the author is jealous of someone who achieved both a degree from Harvard and a career in the WWE and then went on to write a book.
Coincidently, since you seem to lack any journalistic properties, Bret Hart’s career was also ended not by “knee problems” but by post concussion syndrome.
I hope you never have to experience the things this article and Nowinski’s book deal with but your making light of it is disgusting.
lol
Down with dmac!
The NFL has to come clean on what it knows about head injury . A connection to boxing is a step in the right direction. A particular jaw posistining use by the N.E Patriots has enabled them to avoid recurant concussion and symptoms believed to have contributed to Waters condition. Withholding this information has hurt many people. There Lawyers konw this and will not let the trueth about concussion out. It will cost to much. http://www.mahercor.com
If there’s one thing you can say about me, it’s that I’m jealous of Harvard-educated pro wrestlers. That’s been true for as long as I’ve lived.
ESPN Magazine
Even as the NFL changes rules and helmet makers improve their designs, the league says concussion rates have stayed level at about 0.4 incidents per game in recent seasons — about 100 per year. But teams report only half of these. In the four seasons between 2000 and 2003, clubs listed a total of 203 concussions on weekly injury reports, according to data compiled by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Not all teams suffer equally. Some clubs reported multiple head injuries in each of the years. The Colts listed 20 concussions.
The Patriots listed zero.
And a small-town New England dentist, who literally has been inside Patriots players’ heads for 25 years, says he knows why.
http://www.mahercor.com