A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion – several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage. Bennet Omalu Read Quote
All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage. Bennet Omalu Read Quote
What I did when I identified Mike Webster’s thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica! Bennet Omalu Read Quote
Actually, I’m for football. But I’m for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are. Bennet Omalu Read Quote
When I read Mike Webster’s file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder. Bennet Omalu Read Quote
Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain. Bennet Omalu Read Quote
