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Lauren Fortington, Senior Research Fellow | Injury Prevention & Sports Medicine, Edith Cowan University

Do repetitive head injuries really cause the degenerative brain disease CTE? New research questions the link

Concerns about the long-term impacts of concussion and head injury have become prominent in recent years, particularly among participants and stakeholders of contact and collision sports.

Many people have been left wondering about the risk of head injury in sport and whether it is safe to continue to play.

People are especially worried about what is commonly known as CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy).

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