First Soccer and Rugby Players Diagnosed With CTE
Repeated brain injuries is a big topic of concern for organized sports right now. While the NFL gets the spotlight for denying the seriousness of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, reports are…
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Joe Namath Reveals His Brain Injury
Last Friday, two days before being honored to perform the coin toss for the 2014 Super Bowl, Joe Namath appeared on CNN’s Piers Morgan show. Mr. Namath is most notably remembered…
ReadWhy Are Brain Injury Patients Put Into Medically-Induced Comas?
When Michael Schumacher recently suffered a severe brain injury while skiing, he arrived at the French hospital already in a coma. Schumacher is likely to remain in the coma for…
ReadRyan Freel Becomes the First Major League Baseball Player to be Diagnosed with CTE
Ryan Freel was frequently described as fearless throughout his career playing major league baseball for the Cincinati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, and Baltimore Orioles. He wasn’t afraid to…
ReadIncreased Survival Rates for TBI Patients Causes Donor Organ Shortage
Recent studies have shown that the advancements in traumatic brain injury treatment over the past decade have allowed more people to survive traumatic brain injuries. While this is good news…
ReadLegally Lethal: A Case Study
Last month, I attended a lecture given by Dr. Bo Burns, an ER doctor at Hillcrest Medical Center here in Tulsa. The topic was street drugs ranging from bath salts…
ReadMalcolm Gladwell Suggests Drastic Action To Solve Football’s TBI Problem
Malcolm Gladwell has been a longtime New Yorker staff writer as well as the author of best-sellers The Tipping Point and Outliers about American college football. That means he has…
ReadSanjay Gupta Explains Why We Need To Call Concussions a Brain Injury
Just because it is now officially the off-season for the NFL doesn’t mean the NFL’s woes are going away. The game is played by men who average 250 pounds, with…
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