This boxer is using science to track her brain health, and helping researchers better understand head impacts
Boxer Claire Hafner’s brain may help future women athletes, patients with neurodegenerative conditions, survivors of intimate partner violence and soldiers with head trauma. She's one of 17 Canadian athletes participating in a landmark study of the effects of head trauma on 900 living athletes, mostly from combat sports.
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![Claire Hafner leans against the ropes at Cougar Boxing Club in Edmonton, AB a week before heading to Las Vegas for her annual round of neurological testing. A woman wearing yellow boxing gloves leans against the ropes of a boxing ring.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7159225.1711720643!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/claire-hafner.jpeg)
Boxer Claire Hafner’s brain may help future women athletes, patients with neurodegenerative conditions, survivors of intimate partner violence and soldiers with head trauma. She's one of 17 Canadian athletes participating in a landmark study of the effects of head trauma on 900 living athletes, mostly from combat sports.