Family of late 49er Greg Clark shares story of his battle with CTE

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Family of late 49er Greg Clark shares story of his battle with CTE
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The Clark family, in an exclusive interview with this news organization, is revealing that Boston University researchers found signs of Stage 3 CTE – chronic traumatic encephalopathy – in the brain…

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At 6 a.m. the next day, Carie Clark was on the phone, seeking to learn where to donate her late husband’s brain for scientific study — and for answers. “CTE is a progressive disease and it gets worse as an individual ages,” said Dr. Ann McKee of the Boston University CTE Center. “Even though Greg retired before age 30, the disease continued to progress and it spread from those lesions, which is very classic for CTE. His disease had spread into the interior of brain, the parts that control learning and memory.”

Clark had some highlights and some injuries, the last of which required hamstring surgery to sideline him all of 2001 before his release in February 2002.

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