What Can You Do

What can you do to help in the battle against CTE? There are a lot of options – any small step you take will help to spread the word and increase awareness about this devastating and preventable disease. 

1. Learn more about CTE: What is CTE? | Concussion Legacy Foundation (concussionfoundation.org)

2. Read the stories of Legacy donors: Legacy Stories | Concussion Legacy Foundation (concussionfoundation.org)

3. Read and share the CTE Prevention Protocol: CTE prevention protocol (concussionfoundation.org)

4. Join the CTE Research registry: Participate in Research | Concussion Legacy Foundation (concussionfoundation.org)

5. Pledge your brain – they need control brains as well as brains from those who participated in contact sports:  Research Registry | Concussion Legacy Foundation (concussionfoundation.org)

6. Research for Military – Project Enlist - Research Registry | Concussion Legacy Foundation (concussionfoundation.org)

7. Refer someone to the Helpline - CLF HelpLine | Concussion Legacy Foundation (concussionfoundation.org)

8. Join the Stop Hitting Kids in the Head Program:  Stop Hitting Kids in the Head | Concussion Legacy Foundation (concussionfoundation.org)

9. Watch and share these powerful PSA from Brett Favre and CLF:

9. 1. Brett Favre PSA - A Warning from the Future | Favre 4 Flag (youtube.com)

   2. Smoking/Football PSA - Provocative new PSA "Tackle Can Wait" urges parents to wait to enroll their children in tackle football until age 14 | Concussion Legacy Foundation (concussionfoundation.org)

10. Watch Requiem for a Running Back, Rebecca Carpenter’s moving documentary about her father Lew Carpenter’s life and battle with CTE: Requiem for a Running Back

11. Videos if you suspect you or someone you love may be suffering from CTE:

11. 1. Managing and Treating Suspected CTE: Dr Robert Cantu on Managing and Treating Suspected CTE (youtube.com)

    2. How to Find the Right Doctor: Worried about CTE? How to find a doctor, and what to ask (youtube.com)

12. Read a research article:

    1. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE): criteria for neuropathological diagnosis and relationship to repetitive head impacts - PMC (nih.gov)

    2. Leveraging football accelerometer data to quantify associations between repetitive head impacts and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in males | Nature Communications

    3. Association of Vascular Risk Factors and CSF and Imaging Biomarkers With White Matter Hyperintensities in Former American Football Players | Neurology

    4. Developing methods to detect and diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy during life: rationale, design, and methodology for the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project - PMC (nih.gov)