The Concussion & CTE Foundation® drives the research, care, and cultural change that ends the human suffering caused by brain trauma. Your generosity fuels every call answered, every brain studied, every kid protected.
What began in 2007 with one patient’s story is now a global movement with chapters in Australia, Canada, and the UK: the most influential platform for concussion education, patient support, and CTE research in the world.
Every HelpLine caller is matched with a case manager who helps them find the right care, community, and hope.
The UNITE Brain Bank has diagnosed 90% of the world's known CTE cases and anchors an international network of six leading universities.
Adopted by the Professional Footballers' Association covering England's Premier League and top divisions of men's and women's soccer.
Stop Hitting Kids in the Head® helped ban heading in youth soccer, checking in youth hockey, and tackling in youth rugby league.
Our CEO and co-founder Dr. Chris Nowinski, a Harvard football player and graduate, former WWE performer, and PhD in behavioral neuroscience, has become the leading voice translating decades of research into headlines that change how families, leagues, and lawmakers treat the brain.
The primary advocate for reform in the treatment of sports concussions.
The man most responsible for making CTE part of the national conversation.
Nowinski's figure looms behind the doctors and the headlines and the debate over sports' commitment to minimizing head trauma.
A free, national service that connects patients and families to expert care, resources, and peer support. Every caller is paired with a case manager who stays with them through recovery.
Partnering with USA Hockey and USA Lacrosse, we ask athletes to speak up when a teammate shows concussion signs.
A campaign to eliminate repetitive head impacts from youth sports, the root cause of CTE.
The world's first playbook for preventing CTE, now adopted across English professional soccer.
Advancing critical research on TBI, PTSD, and CTE in military service members and veterans.
Training the next generation of sports journalists to report responsibly on brain trauma.
Six leading universities across five continents collaborating to understand and one day cure CTE.
From Chris Benoit in 2007 to Marshawn Kneeland today, our research and advocacy have sat at the center of the most consequential CTE stories of the past two decades.
Boston University researchers, in partnership with the Foundation, diagnosed Kneeland with Stage 1 CTE following his death, a case that put the youngest generation of NFL brains back in the national spotlight.
Read the storyBoston University researchers, in partnership with the Foundation, diagnosed the longtime NHL enforcer with Stage 3 CTE following his death — a landmark case putting hockey's culture of fighting into the spotlight.
Read the storyBoston University researchers diagnosed the 27-year-old with Stage 3 CTE, the most severe case ever seen in a person that young, forcing a national reckoning about repetitive head impacts in professional football.
Read the storyEvery path below leads to the same place: fewer families in the dark, more brains protected, and a future where CTE is a disease we ended.
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