Examining Boston University’s Study about Repetitive Contact

By Anthony B. Corleto, of Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP   A recent Boston University study about repetitive contact, “Concussion, Microvascular Injury, and Early Tauopathy in Young Athletes after Impact Head Injury and an Impact Concussion Mouse Model,” is being viewed as establishing a link between “sub-concussive hits” (any contact that doesn’t produce a frank concussion) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). This piece is getting full-on media exposure. I