While football continues to dominate the discussion surrounding sports-related brain injuries, it is often easy to forget that numerous other sports are also facing their own concussion problems. Football is undoubtedly the most popular sport in the United States, and so it makes sense that it receives the most attention from the media. But, it…
ReadPrevious studies may have suggested younger athletes may take longer to recover from concussions, but a new study from Vanderbilt University indicates this may not be the case. According to their findings, age does not play a significant role in the duration of concussion symptoms. Fox News reports a study published in the Journal of…
ReadDr. Michael Lipton, associate director of Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, isn’t the first doctor to suggest that repeated “heading” of a soccer ball could be potentially dangerous to brain health, but he did lead the latest study to back up that theory. Heading is a common soccer move…
ReadCountry singer Mindy McCready’s tragic suicide may never be understood, but many speculate that substance abuse may have played a role. Fox News suggests there may have been another factor contributing to her death: brain injury. McCready had a well known abusive relationship with the man who fathered her first son, Billy McKnight, who was…
ReadScientists and doctors are working every day to help fight the most common injury for soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. That injury is traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Those working to solve it have come up with some creative solutions. Most people are aware of its weakest form, the concussion, but fewer people know…
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