{"id":10511,"date":"2023-07-04T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/?p=10511"},"modified":"2025-06-25T23:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:43:13","slug":"first-diagnosed-case-of-cte-in-female-professional-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/first-diagnosed-case-of-cte-in-female-professional-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"First Diagnosed Case of CTE in Female Professional Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Traumatic-Brain-Injury-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10064 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Traumatic-Brain-Injury-2-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>The family of Heather Anderson, Australian rules footballer,\u00a0 donated her brain to the Australian Sports Brain Bank following her death in November 2022. Anderson was 28 years old.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published on June 30th, outlining the findings of Anderson&#8217;s post-mortem analysis declares she is the first female to have Chronic Traumatic\u00a0Encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a disorder associated with repetitive head injuries, often related to sports or military activities.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson was diagnosed with one concussion; however, her family suspected she may have had four additional concussions not diagnosed. She also was in the military for nine years and engaged in amateur martial arts for three years &#8211; neither of these activities resulted in reports of concussions.<\/p>\n<p>For the full NBC News Article, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/cte-diagnosed-female-professional-athlete-first-time-rcna92500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Related Article:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/former-nfl-star-cbs-anchor-irv-cross-brain-disease-cte-rcna72696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Former NFL &amp; CBS anchor Irv Cross had CTE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of Heather Anderson, Australian rules footballer,\u00a0 donated her brain to the Australian Sports Brain Bank following her death in November 2022. Anderson was 28 years old. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1199,1200,1201,1094,1202,1203,1204],"class_list":["post-10511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australian-football","tag-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy","tag-cte","tag-football","tag-heather-andersn","tag-post-mortem","tag-rulers-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}