Playing Football Too Young May Mean Earlier Cognitive & Emotional Problems

BOSTON (CNN) – Sports may be a great way to keep kids active, but a new study of players finds that the earlier players with CTE started to tackle football, the more vulnerable they were to emotional and cognitive problems.
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine and VA Boston Healthcare System studied nearly 250 football players, of whom 211 were diagnosed with CTE after their death. CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, is a degenerative brain disease that often sta