{"id":2797,"date":"2023-12-22T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T19:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2023-12-22T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T19:22:33","slug":"a-living-hell-inside-of-my-head-for-first-time-more-advanced-stage-of-cte-diagnosed-in-teen-football-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/2023\/12\/22\/a-living-hell-inside-of-my-head-for-first-time-more-advanced-stage-of-cte-diagnosed-in-teen-football-player\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A living hell inside of my head\u2019: For first time, more advanced stage of CTE diagnosed in teen football player"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 20, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

(CNN) In July 2019, just months after graduating from high school, 18-year-old Wyatt Bramwell took his own life. About a year later, researchers at Boston University diagnosed him with stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, caused by playing tackle football for several years.<\/p>\n

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Wyatt\u2019s mother suspects that he knew what he was doing when he died.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe shot himself in the heart, not the head,\u201d Christie Bramwell said. It was her son\u2019s dying wish\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>to donate his brain to CTE research, and the only way to diagnose the disease is through an autopsy of the brain.<\/p>\n

In Wyatt\u2019s brain, researchers discovered the first case of stage 2 CTE to be diagnosed in a high school football player, according to Dr. Ann McKee, director of the Boston University CTE Center, who diagnosed Wyatt.<\/p>\n

The Kansas City, Missouri, teen had the worst brain trauma ever seen in someone so young, according to the Concussion Legacy Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an example of a person with fairly advanced damage to his brain, given that he only played amateur football and his highest level was high school,\u201d McKee said.<\/p>\n

Wyatt\u2019s condition was caused by playing tackle football for about 10 years, including four years in high school, McKee says. Bramwell says he started playing flag football at 5 years old and advanced to tackle in the third grade.<\/p>\n

Bramwell says she knew what CTE was but thought it was only found in older professional football players. She never imagined the disease would alter her life forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the worst thing that would ever happen to my kid maybe was a bad tackle. Something broken, something bleeding. That wasn\u2019t the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

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November 20, 2023 (CNN) In July 2019, just months after graduating from high school, 18-year-old Wyatt Bramwell took his own life. About a year later, researchers at Boston University diagnosed him with stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, caused by playing tackle football for several years. Playing football may increase risk of Parkinson\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/fhs-bap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}