Posts Tagged ‘sports-related TBI’
By Paul Stone On September 4th, 2014
With so much scrutiny on the NFL’s every decision, it makes sense that the league would be in a rush to share their annual Health and Safety report which says concussions decreased overall during the 2013 season. The report says concussions are down 13-percent from the previous year and the number of concussions coming from…
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By Paul Stone On August 11th, 2014
Despite girl’s soccer having one of the highest rates of brain injuries behind football, it wasn’t until this year’s World Cup that the sports community became concerned about the management of concussions in the game. Almost certainly thanks to a few brutal collisions and seemingly obvious – though still not confirmed – brain injuries, people…
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By Paul Stone On July 31st, 2014
This week has been a busy one for lawyers involved with sports-related brain injury lawsuits. Early this week the NCAA and former players accusing the league of endangering the safety of student-athletes reached a preliminary settlement which could relieve much of the league’s issues with brain injuries and improve player safety in the future. Only…
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By Paul Stone On July 15th, 2014
As sports-related concussion education and awareness increases, it is becoming quite apparent that there are other issues preventing child-athletes and their parents from following the best advice for their health. It is highly common for athletes to hide symptoms from brain injuries, and parents are often supportive of the decision to ignore doctors’ recommendations to…
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By Paul Stone On June 24th, 2014
There are an astounding amount of myths related to concussions and traumatic brain injuries. I’ve previously shared an infographic debunking several of the widely believed myths about concussions, but there are more than enough misconceptions about the most common form of brain injury to spend some more time correcting the most popular myths. Many of…
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By Paul Stone On June 20th, 2014
Since the discovery that soccer is linked to high rates of brain injuries similar to those found in football and hockey players, the assumption has been that the brain damage was associated with the repeated “headers”, or a player using their head to direct the ball. This assumption isn’t entirely baseless, several researchers have shown…
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By Paul Stone On June 3rd, 2014
UPDATE – Marino stated late on Tuesday that he did not realize he would be listed as a plaintiff in concussion litigation filed against the NFL when he authorized a claim to be filed in case he needed future medical care for brain trauma. He has since withdrawn his name from the lawsuit filed earlier…
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By Paul Stone On April 30th, 2014
A new study published in the Journal of Neurotrauma may offer insight into the behavioral changes and problems caused by repeated brain injuries, as well as offering a model for new methods of preventing and identifying the neurodegenerative disorder chronic traumatic encephalopthy. The research used mice to show that mild repetitive traumatic brain injury creates…
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By Paul Stone On April 9th, 2014
While the NFL has been fighting a “concussion crisis”, more worrying findings have been coming out of other sports, and now the issue of so-called subconcussive hits is reaching the most popular sport in the United States. A new study claims the more hits a football player’s head takes over the course of a season,…
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By Paul Stone On March 26th, 2014
Over the weekend, Navy football player Will McKamey was hospitalized after collapsing during practice. The 19-year-old freshman running back and Fourth Class Midshipman fell into a coma, and three days days later the Naval Academy Superintendent VADM Mike Miller has confirmed the McKamey has died. Despite his family releasing a statement that McKamey did not…
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