The NFL and G.E. Team Up To Prevent and Detect Brain Injuries
While the Super Bowl went without any clear incidents of brain injury, the topic still hung around the day like a dark cloud, which the NFL tried to disarm as…
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Hall of Fame Member Talks About TBI in the NFL
The Super Bowl is finally over and luckily there were no clear major injuries on the field, but that doesn’t mean the conversation about brain injury in professional football is…
ReadHelmets Don’t Protect Against Brain Injury As Well As They Claim
The most common suggestion for preventing head injury is to wear a helmet. Even in the NFL, the biggest push in traumatic brain injury prevention is coming from helmet designers…
ReadThe Super Bowl: A Celebration Of Brain Injury
This weekend marks the biggest event in professional football, and maybe even all sports, for the entire year. The Super Bowl earns ratings Presidential Addresses envy, and ad space costs more than…
ReadX Games Participant In Critical Condition With Brain Injury
Most of the talk about traumatic brain injury surrounds football. The sport is the most popular in America, and until recently was thought to be relatively safe for a game…
ReadDr. Elizabeth Pieroth Explains How The NFL Handles TBI
There’s a lot of speculation about just how well the NFL is managing its players’ safety in the wake of very high profile traumatic brain injury research through the past…
ReadInducing Hypothermia May Prevent Long Term TBI Damage
It has been recently proven that chilling the brain immediately after traumatic brain injury can reduce the long-term damage and even prevent death in patients with brain swelling. Now, STV…
ReadThe History Of TBI In The NFL
The NFL has been under attack because of the well documented number of brain injuries athletes are dealing with, and the long-term health problems that come from them. I’ve spoken…
ReadPresident Obama Expresses Concern About TBI in Football
You know traumatic brain injury has becomes a major topic when the President is commenting on it. President Obama was speaking to The New Republic magazine when he expressed concern…
ReadAre The New CTE Findings Really “The Holy Grail”?
The news that a group of researchers at UCLA have found a protein in the brain of living patients linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is being treated as…
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