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Brain injury specialists are calling for the introduction of regulations to limit the amount of head trauma sustained by young athletes.

The Sports Legacy Institute announced the proposals following several studies into cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) found in high-school American football players.

CTE is a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive blows to the head, which causes memory loss, impaired thinking, loss of sensation, communication difficulties and possible epilepsy.

Also, in extreme cases it can increase the risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, as well as proving fatal.

In order to reduce the development of the condition, experts want to see a hit count introduced that would limit the number of blows to the head to no more than 1,000 per season for school and college athletes.

The announcement was timed to coincide with the US Super Bowl, which took place yesterday (February 5th) and saw the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots.

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