Nigerian forensic pathologist, Bennet Omalu, whose autopsy of Pittsburgh Steelers center, Mike Webster led to his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, has been portrayed in a new movie - 'Concussion', by Will Smith.

47-year old Nigerian-born US-based forensic neuropathologist, Bennet Omalu, discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in 2002, after performing an autopsy on former Pittsburgh Steelers star, Mike Webster. Webster died of a heart attack at the age of 50, after years of depression and dementia that eventually led to him becoming homeless and forgetting how to do basic things, such as eating.

This incredible discovery, has been portrayed in a new movie - 'Concussion', starring Hollywood actor, Will Smith.

From examining Webster and other football players, including Dave Duerson and Andre Waters, Omalu determined that repeated head trauma from the sport causes a brain condition that leads to memory loss, impaired judgement, impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and eventually progressive dementia.


Doctors knew that boxers suffered brain problems after years of continuous head trauma, but Omalu was the first person to associate the same issues with football players.

The discovery of CTE raised questions nationwide about whether football could ever be truly safe which obviously didn’t sit well with the NFL or football-loving Americans. After Omalu published his findings, the NFL sent a letter to one of his colleagues accusing him of fraud.

Omalu told Frontline in 2013: "They went to the press. They insinuated I was not practicing medicine; I was practicing voodoo." Because Omalu is from Nigeria, some people said that he was attacking the American way of life.



Omalu told Frontline that he was asked, "How dare you, a foreigner like you from Nigeria? What is Nigeria known for, the eighth most corrupt country in the world? Who are you? Who do you think you are to come to tell us how to live our lives?"

The NFL did make some changes after Omalu’s newly-discovered disease gained more attention. In 2009, the league instituted concussion management guidelines, which include neuropsychological testing on all NFL players to help determine when a player could return to play after a head injury. When Omalu heard about the new standards, he told GQ: “You mean they never had any concussion guidelines before now? Geez.”

In a statement released to FOX Sports, the NFL said about the new film - Concussion: "We are encouraged by the ongoing focus on the critical issue of player health and safety. We have no higher priority. We all know more about this issue than we did 10 or 20 years ago. As we continue to learn more, we apply those learnings to make our game and players safer."

Kudos to him

Omalu was born in Nnokwa, Nigeria, Idemili South, in southeastern Nigeria, in September 1968, the sixth of seven siblings. He was born during the Nigerian Civil War, which caused his family to flee from their home in the predominantly Igbo village of Enugwu-Ukwu in southeastern Nigeria. They returned to their village two years after Omalu’s birth.[2] Omalu’s mother was a seamstress and his father a civil mining engineer and community leader in Enugwu-Ukwu. The family name, Omalu, is a shortened form of the surname, Onyemalukwubew, which translates to “if you know, come forth and speak.”[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennet_Omalu

Hehehe! Igbo people again?

Smart Ibo man. He left the country after the war. I'm really thinking of getting out of this hell hole. Lalasticlala dey ontop woman?

BIAFRAN AND NIGER DELTAN KWENU............... Buhari MAKA WHY??

SegunAdewole:
Smart Ibo man. He left the country after the war. I'm really thinking of getting out of this hell hole. Lalasticlala dey ontop woman?

Nope! Stay in your country and build it. Don't come here to reap where you have not sown

Kudos to him.

Adelaide2:


Nope! Stay in your country and build it. Don't come here to reap where you have not sown

A despot and a dictator is in power voted by the most senseless 15 million nigerians with the lowest I.Q. I must leave them to enjoy the calamity they brought upon themselves.