CranioSacral Therapy, Brain Injury, and American Football: Time for a Convergence

Posted On: January 22nd, 2018

Eric Leskowitz, MD

CranioSacral Therapy, Brain Injury, and American Football: Time for a Convergence

Read the article: CranioSacral Therapy, Brain Injury, and American Football: Time for a Convergence authored by Eric Leskowitz, MD. This article was published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in Decemeber 2017.

Citation: Leskowitz Eric. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. December 2017, 23(12): 905-906.
https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2017.0264

 

Will Smith may not have gotten an Academy Award for his portrayal of Dr. Bennett Omalu in the 2016 movie Concussion, but his depiction of the forensic pathologist brought the issue of sports concussion to a much wider audience than ever before. As the film demonstrated (“Based on a true story”), the National Football League had for years been minimizing any connection between commonly experienced repeat concussions and later symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Recent concerns include the devastating disorder known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Now the word is out.

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