Football season is gearing up for high school and college athletes across the country, renewing concerns over repeated head impacts and traumatic brain injuries or concussions. Even over the past year, tons of advancements have been made in managing brain injuries, and research has unearthed extensive information as to how our brains function and react…
ReadThe New York Times published an article last Sunday profiling two new sensors that can help detect high impact hits to the head in athletes. It is one of many they have written helping to bring attention to the issue of brain injury in sports and highlights how technology is helping us diagnose and manage…
ReadFootball may be the big sport for concussion discussion, but it is far from the biggest cause of sports-related concussions. According to the statistics, riding your bicycle is actually a much more dangerous decision than hitting the gridiron. According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, cycling accidents were involved in roughly 86,000 of the…
ReadThere are three types of traumatic brain injury advances being made right now: preventative, diagnostic, and treatment. Preventative advancements are currently lagging because they come mostly in the form of human change. New helmets and padding do their part to reduce the risk of brain injury, but our professional sports have become so cut throat…
ReadEvery day soldiers return from their service with traumatic brain injuries that will seriously impact their lives for years, possibly even until they die. Lt. Col Richard Brunk knows all of this well. Now retired from the service, the chaplain had only been in Baghdad two weeks when a rocket destroyed the chapel he was…
ReadNew research published in the scientific journal Brain helps support the theory that repeated “mild” traumatic brain injuries can lead to long-term degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The study examined brain samples from 85 people with histories of repeated mild TBI, and the study alone has doubled the number of CTE…
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