Posts Tagged ‘NewsOk’
By Paul Stone On April 22nd, 2014
Oklahoma legislators have approved a bill that would give free access to hyperbaric oxygen treatment to any Oklahoma veteran who has been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, but experts on brain injuries are still attempting to uncover whether the therapy can actually produce the miraculous results many of its proponents claim. One of the biggest…
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By Paul Stone On April 21st, 2014
Oklahoma was one of the earlier states to pass legislation regulating how traumatic brain injuries and concussions are handled in youth athletics, but lately activists have been urging the state to update the laws to reflect the more recent findings surrounding the risk of brain injury. One such law intended to reform concussion management and…
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By Paul Stone On April 1st, 2014
Before the NFL and the media brought the concussion debate into the homes of families across the country, Oklahoma was one of the first states to pass legislation mandating concussion treatment and management plans for high school athletes. That was just a few years ago, back in 2010. At the time, the legislation was widely…
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By Paul Stone On August 12th, 2013
Kerali Davis and her son Brady’s story is all too familiar for many people across the country. Her son, an eigth grader on the middle school football team in Newcastle at the time, ran into an player on the opposing team during a kickoff. Neither was at fault, but the results were devastating. The other…
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By Paul Stone On October 18th, 2012
Gary Farnum used to be brilliant. He was the head of the family, a high performing Chesapeake Energy attorney, and he was in great shape from endurance bicycling. He also had a great vocabulary. In one moment, that Gary disappeared and was replaced with someone who relied on others for even the most basic things.…
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