CTE History and Sports

Rating: 9/10 (16 November 2017)

A reasonably important movie to warn people (especially parents) about the danger of head related injuries from combat-style sports. And it does veer into the usual Hollywood conspiracy type movie of big bad organizations trying to suppress the knowledge from people.
However, one important fact, Dr. Bennett Omalu didn't discover or name Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy as claimed in the movie. Although he was probably most responsible for extending it to American style football in his 2006 paper.
"CTE was originally studied in boxers in the 1920s as dementia pugilistica. The seminal work on the disease came from British neurologist Macdonald Critchley, who in 1949 wrote a paper titled "Punch-drunk syndromes: the chronic traumatic encephalopathy of boxers." CTE was first recognized as affecting individuals who took considerable blows to the head, but was believed to be confined to boxers and not other athletes." (Wikipedia)
Also not mention is that in has impacted players in wrestling, ice hockey, mixed martial arts, soccer, Rugby, Australian rules football, baseball, and extreme (BMX) sports. (Wikipedia)