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iainmerrick 2 days ago

From the headline, I thought it might be about sports-related concussions!

I was morbidly curious what a "good CTE" could possibly be...

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QuantumNomad_ 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

As someone who is not much of a sports person, now I was wondering what CTE means in sports.

Seems to be this:

> Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease […]

> Evidence indicates that repetitive concussive and subconcussive blows to the head cause CTE. In particular, it is associated with contact sports such as boxing, American football, Australian rules football, wrestling, mixed martial arts, ice hockey, rugby, and association football.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...

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alistairSH 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yep, that's it.

The NFL in the US has famously gone to great lengths to downplay the impact of CTE on current and retired players. And there have been several famous players who literally lost their minds as they aged, and we now know that was due to CTE. Something like 90% of ex-NFLers have it. The number is still really bad for collegiate players. And even high school players are at risk.

It was to the point that Will Smith starred in a movie about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussion_(2015_film)

	▲	theturtletalks 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’ve been playing Madden for years and they literally fazed out concussions in the game in their attempt to downplay the risks.

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iainmerrick 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah - Muhammad Ali is the most famous victim (or at least likely victim, I don’t think he was officially diagnosed with CTE as it wasn’t well understood back then). In the UK, it’s gradually becoming recognised as a serious problem in rugby.

I assumed the C stood for Concussion. Wrong but also partly right!

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tialaramex 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was thinking "Compile Time Execution" like Rust's const, C++ consteval functions, Zig's comptime, that sort of thing. So the good/ bad made more sense but I was still on the wrong track, yeah a definition was appropriate.

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DANmode a day ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s what got me to click!