Despite Concussion Fears, Youth Football Remains Popular
Parents may be more aware of the danger of concussions when playing football, but it doesn’t seem to be keeping them from letting their children play, according to Kavita Varma-White…
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Helmets Still Can’t Prevent Concussions, Even With Aftermarket Attachments
As coaches and parents, the desire to keep the brains of young football players safe from concussion can be intense, and many are looking into new options that purportedly prevent…
ReadSimple Concussion Tool Offers an Alternative to High Tech Tests
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…
ReadOklahoma School’s Fight Against Concussion is Chronicled in New Documentary
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…
ReadFootball Has the Highest Concussion Rate in Youth Sports
A new report released Tuesday confirms what we’ve long suspected to be true; football has the highest concussion rate for all youth sports. Followed by wrestling and cheerleading, traumatic brain…
ReadThe CDC Foundation Releases New Concussion App and Website
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 170,000 young athletes every year are taken to their local emergency department for a possible sports or recreation-related…
ReadCanadian Survey Says a Fifth of Teens Have Had Brain Injury
If a survey of students from Canada is accurate, traumatic brain injury may be much more of a problem than we thought. The study, published as a “research letter” in…
ReadA Properly Worn Helmet Is Key To Preventing Brain Injury
Now that summer is really here, it’s hard to go very far in a city without seeing a person riding their bike. Some are on their way to work and…
ReadPrevious Brain Injury Means Longer Recovery From More Recent TBI
The risk of repeated brain injuries continues to get worse as a new study from Matthew A. Eisenberg, M.D., and his colleagues from Harvard Medical School has found that children…
ReadMost High School Athletes Won’t Report Concussion Symptoms
It has long been understood that self-reporting is a terrible diagnostic method for brain injury, but until recently there were few other ways to go about identifying possible brain injuries. For athletes,…
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