UFC Donates $1 Million In direction of Brain Analysis

The UFC introduced that it has contributed $1 million to brain investigation with the Cleveland Clinic.

In accordance to ESPN.com, the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Centre for Mind Well being in Las Vegas has been doing work on the Qualified Athletes Mind Well being Analyze for 10 several years. The UFC has also donated $2 million in excess of a few rounds of guidance.

All through the UFC supporting out the clinic, more than 100 UFC fighters have taken portion in the study. UFC COO Lawrence Epstein said the hope is to just take the knowledge in this research and convey it to athletic commissions in an hard work to help tell prospective new policy. If a fighter is at a better possibility of CTE, most likely that is anything the commissions could think about introducing to their prerequisites for licensing athletes.

“We want this style of assessment to be a important component of the regulation of fight athletics,” Epstein said. … “This is not about diagnosing injury. This is about preventing injury from having location.”

Bellator, Golden Boy boxing and Top rated Rank boxing have also donated to the Lou Ruvo Centre research.

“I consider the complete overcome field has really rallied, compared with other sports activities, to enable us have an understanding of this issue of prolonged-expression head impacts,” Dr. Charles Bernick mentioned.