This is incorrect. I can tell you offhand soccer and hockey both have lower rates of CTE’s, soccer by a significant amount. American football has been the most studied and reported on because of how bad it is and how popular the sport remains anyway
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reply"This analysis revealed that risk ranged from a 5-fold increase in Alzheimer’s disease, through an approximately 4 fold increase in motor neurone disease, to a 2 fold Parkinson’s disease in former professional footballers compared to population controls."
https://www.thepfa.com/news/2019/10/21/field-study-increased...
"...the odds of having chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increased by 34% each year [of ice hockey] played, and 18 of 19 National Hockey League players had CTE."
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/news-events/articles/2024/larg...
Yes hockey has CTE’s but it’s at a lower rate than with US football. Nobody is saying it’s super safe or doesn’t have CTE cases.
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