Welcome back to The Student Physio Podcast. Hosted by Brad Carrigan and Connor Wright we are joined by one of our lecturer's Ally Briggs. In this episode we talk about all things concussion, CTE, lawsuits and the effects of COVID on pitch-side sports trauma.  

Articles discussed: 

Stein, T. D., Alvarez, V. E., & McKee, A. C. (2015). Concussion in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Current pain and headache reports, 19(10), 47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-015-0522-z

Hazrati, L. N., Tartaglia, M. C., Diamandis, P., Davis, K. D., Green, R. E., Wennberg, R., Wong, J. C., Ezerins, L., & Tator, C. H. (2013). Absence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in retired football players with multiple concussions and neurological symptomatology. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 7, 222. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00222

Ling, H., Morris, H.R., Neal, J.W., Lees, A.J., Hardy, J., Holton, J.L., Revesz, T. and Williams, D.D.R. (2017) Mixed pathologies including chronic traumatic encephalopathy account for dementia in retired association football (soccer) players. Acta Neuropathol 133(3), 337-352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-017-1680-3

Russell ER, Stewart K, Mackay DF, et al 2019 Football’s Influence on Lifelong health and Dementia risk (FIELD): protocol for a retrospective cohort study of former professional footballers, BMJ Open (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028654