(August 10, 2015 at 1:32 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: If you only knew how much joy, pain, excitement, anxiety, and sadness I get out of a Steelers game, Min.
There is a cost, you know.
http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/201...ster-thing
Quote:Webster was examined by Allegheny Medical coroner's office pathologist Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian-born discoverer of what is fairly considered one of the most important issues in sports today; CTE.
Limiting the medical jargon, when a brain suffers a direct injury, proteins form around the affected area. Those proteins are seen through a microscope as red specs. Healthy brain cells will eventually devour those proteins, but in cases like Webster's, the proteins eventually overwhelm the amount of healthy brain cells available to clear the brain.
Omalu described Webster's brain as one of "boxers, very old people with Alzheimer's disease or someone who had suffered a severe head wound."
