Dylan Bettencourt
Ucwaningo oluthinta ukungqubuzana kwezemidlalo luthole ukuthi iningi labasubathi abashonile abanikele ngobuchopho babo ocwaningweni babephethwe i-Cronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
Abathathu abanikele ngobuchopho babo bashona beneminyaka engaphansi kwengu-35.
I-Australian Sports Brain Bank ishicilele abakutholile ngoMsombuluko ngemuva kokuhlola ubuchopho babantu abangu-21 obunikelwe ngabasubathi selokhu kwasungulwa lesi sikhungo ngo-2018.
Ebuchosheni obuhloliwe, abangu-17 kubo babedlale ibhola laseMelika. Abanikela ngobuchopho abayishumi nambili batholakale benokulimala kwe-CTE ngesikhathi oyedwa kuphela engazange abonise izimpawu ze-neurodegeneration.
I-CTE ingaqinisekiswa kuphela njengokuxilongwa okuqondile ngemuva kokuhlolwa kwesidumbu.
Yisimo se-neurodegenerative esixhumene nokuhlukumezeka ekhanda. Izimpawu zihlanganisa ukukhubazeka kwengqondo, ukuziphatha ngokungananazi, ukudangala, imicabango yokuzibulala, ukusheshe ukhohlwe izinto kanye nokungazinzi ngokomzwelo.
Okutholwe nguSolwazi uMichael Buckland kukhombisa ukuthi kufanele kube nokukhathazeka okukhulu kuyo yonke iminyaka uma kukhulunywa ngemidlalo esekelwe ekushayisaneni.
“I-CTE itholwe ebuchosheni babadlali asebekhulile asebedlale isikhathi eside, kodwa futhi nakubadlali abancane, abangebona ochwepheshe kanye nochwepheshe bakamuva abadlale ngaphansi kwemihlahlandlela yesimanje yokungqubuzana,” kusho uBuckland kanye nabanye abacwaningi ephepheni elishicilelwe yi-Medical Journal of. Australia.
Usolwazi wengeze ngokuthi abayisithupha kwabangu-12 abanikele ngobuchopho ababephethwe i-CTE bashone ngokuzibulala, egcizelela ukuthi isici esiyingozi sokuzibulala siza ne-CTE.
Lesi sikhungo sesithenjiswe ukunikelelwa ngobuchopho ngabasubathi abangaphezu kuka-600 abayizimfundamakhwela nabaqeqeshiwe abazohlolwa ngokuzayo.
Ezemidlalo emhlabeni wonke zisebenzela ekususeni ubungozi be-CTE zibe zigcina ingqikithi yezemidlalo.
Ibhola lombhoxo lethule imihlahlandlela ebeka umkhawulo wokuthintana ngokugcwele ekuziqeqesheni ngesikhathi ibhola lezinyawo linciphisa inani labadlali besihloko abavunyelwe ukudlala ngesikhathi sokuqeqeshwa, kuwo wonke amaqembu eminyaka.
Imidlalo yokulwa efana nesibhakela kanye ne-mixed karate (MMA) ayizange yethule imihlahlandlela evimbelayo kodwa isebenzisa ukumiswa okwesikhashana kwezokwelashwa ukuze kukhawulwe inani lezimpi abasubathi abangaba nazo ngonyaka.
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