Chronic Brain Injury Endured by Bengals Receiver Chris Henry
Philly.com reported that Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry suffered from a chronic brain injury that might have influenced his mental state and behavior before he died in December 2009.
Doctors performed a microscopic tissue analysis of Henry’s brain that showed he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
Co-directors of the Brain Injury Research Institute at West Virginia University announced their findings alongside Henry’s mother, Carolyn Henry Glaspy. Ms Glaspy was not aware of her 26-year-old son’s underlying condition or the disease.
Henry died in December 2009, a day after he came out of the back of a pickup truck his fiancé was driving. An autopsy concluded he died of numerous head injuries, including a fractured skull and brain hemorrhaging.
A team doctor for the Mountaineers and a former Pittsburgh Steelers physician and fellow researchers believe chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is caused by multiple head impacts, regardless of whether those blows result in a concussion diagnosis. A number of studies, including one commissioned by the NFL, have found that retired professional football players may have a higher rate than normal of Alzheimer’s disease and other memory problems.
Although neither NFL nor WVU records show he was diagnosed with a concussion during his playing career, it doesn’t take a collision with another player for brain trauma to occur.
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