An investigation published this Wednesday by the American newspaper Washington Post denounced gaps in the NFL’s agreement on head hits, came into force in 2015, and ensures that does not “regularly” provide money or medical care to former players who suffer from dementia as a result of blows to the head.
La NFL maintains that the agreement is being respected and highlights that has paid close to 1.2 billion dollars to more than 1,600 former players and their families in seven years, the investigation reads.
The league agreed to this agreement pay money to former players who suffered serious brain problems linked with the repeated blows received in their sports careers, as well as create a national network of doctors who care for players with signs of dementia, according to research by Washington Post.
However, the American newspaper assures that “The deal typically does not provide money or medical care to players suffering from dementia. and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)”, something that allows the NFL to “save hundreds of millions of dollarsor more”.
In the investigation it is read that the Parameters established by the NFL agreement to diagnose dementia are more demanding compared to the standard definition of the United States and that several doctors declared to the Washington Post that, if they followed the definition of the American football league, would not diagnose dementia in many patients.
One of the doctors interviewed, Carmela Tartaglia of the neurology department of the University of Toronto, He considered that the rule was written that way on purpose “just for the NFL to save money.”
He Washington Post also ensures that “at least 14 players did not meet the requirements for access to compensation or medical care” and that after his death there was confirmation that they suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
The American newspaper reports that the NFL lawyer, Brad Karpquestioned the conclusions of the Washington Posty maintained that the money paid for the agreement is a demonstration that it is managed “correctly.”
(With information from EFE)
2024-02-01 02:51:02
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