Oklahoma 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…
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Football 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…
ReadCanadian Teen’s Death Shows The Danger of Ignoring Symptoms
Recently, a study showed that most high school athletes would do whatever it takes to get back on the field after a concussion, no matter what doctors say. Most shockingly,…
Read44.3% of All Canada’s Childhood TBI Cases Are Caused By Hockey
If you think football is the only sport having major brain injury issues, you haven’t been playing close enough attention to the headlines lately. Soccer, boxing, basketball, and of course,…
ReadCheerleading is Seeing a Rise in TBI
To those who haven’t been in high school since the 80’s and haven’t managed to see Bring It On on television at some point in their life, it may come…
ReadYoung Athletes Risk Serious Injury By Playing Post-TBI
When people think about concussions or traumatic brain injury, the most widely held assumption is that it requires hitting your head against something else, whether it be the ground, or…
Read5 Tips To Keep Youth Athletes Safe
Most parents worry about their children getting a head injury while playing sports, and that fear is far from unwarranted. The latest data actually shows an increase in emergency room…
ReadWill Calling Cheerleading A Sport Prevent Injuries?
On October 22, 2012, a group of American pediatricians suggested that cheerleading be finally designated an official sport. While this has many women across the country feeling vindicated, the reasons…
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