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| Dale Earnhardt Jr. to donate brain for concussion research |
It's a above announcement, because Earnhardt is NASCAR's a lot of accepted disciplinarian — and has been the accomplished 13 years.
Earnhardt, 41, like abounding adept NASCAR drivers, is no drifter to harder crashes and arch injuries agnate to what football players endured afore getting diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy post-mortem.
In 2002, Earnhardt got a blow in the Fontana chase in April but did not acknowledge the abrasion until September while continuing to race. Ten years later, Earnhardt had two concussions in six weeks, one he self-diagnosed at a annoy analysis in Kansas and addition afterwards a big blast at Talladega. Afterward, he voluntarily went to a doctor for an appraisal and had to sit out two Chase contest in October because of the injury.
While Earnhardt shows no ill furnishings of the concussions acknowledgment to NASCAR's bigger safety, added drivers aren't so lucky. Hall of Famer Fred Lorenzen was begin to accept dementia in 2009 forth with concise anamnesis loss. His ancestors has met with NASCAR admiral to altercate his crumbling health.
Lorenzen is an archetype of drivers that ability accept endured affliction to again arch injuries in a chase car at a time if barrier-softening technology was non-existent as cars comatose bang into accurate walls at top speeds.
Last year, J.D. Gibbs, admiral of Joe Gibbs Antagonism and son of the Hall of Fame football coach, began analysis for affection affecting his accent and academician action that ability accept stemmed from arena football and accommodating in antagonism and acute sports. The adolescent Gibbs is no best active the team's circadian operations and rarely appears at the track.
Other above NASCAR drivers that accept been afflicted by again arch injuries cover Bobby Allison, LeeRoy Yarbrough, Dick Trickle, Jerry Nadeau and Ricky Craven.
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