No Device Eliminates Concussion Risk, Experts Say
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — As the long-term consequences of concussions become more clear, a cottage industry has popped up to sell athletes and worried parents products designed to mitigate risks of concussions that even helmets cannot preven…
Football Coach Charged After Allegedly Flooring Opposing Player
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(SALT LAKE CITY) — A youth football halfback in Utah was headed for a touchdown this past Saturday that would have broken a tie in one of the last games of the season.At that moment, the opposing team’s volunteer coach allegedly …
Drew Brees Teams Up Against Concussions in School Sports
Grant Halverson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Drew Brees, the quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, has taken some pretty hard hits in his career and knows the dangers involved with playing football professionally.That’s why he’s lent his nam…
NFL, Military Partner to Reduce Concussions
Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — They are known as the invisible injuries. They may not result in bruises, breaks, or even loss of limbs, but the results of concussions can be disastrous, leading to severe brain trauma as well as psychologi…
Novel Brain Scan Can Detect Concussions
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A novel imaging technique may cut the lengthy process — a physical exam and a battery of tests — to determine whether a patient is suffering from a concussion down to a single scan, a new study suggests.This technolog…
Former NFL Players Filing Massive Concussion Lawsuit Against League
Scott Boehm/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) — A landmark class action lawsuit is being filed Thursday morning in Philadelphia against the National Football League by former players who allege the NFL has misled them for decades about the risks of brain inj…
Fla. Girl Falls Off Rock-Climbing Wall, Suffers Concussion
Courtesy Jeff Davis(MIAMI) — Jeff Davis took his daughter, Emily, and her brother, Zack, to a Florida Marlin’s baseball game on Saturday. Then they went to a rock-climbing wall outside the stadium. That’s when things took a horrifying turn…
Junior Seau: Safety Debate Continues as Family Delays Brain Donation
Ronald C. Modra/Sports Imagery/Getty Images(SAN DIEGO) — The family of Junior Seau, the NFL football star who died last week, is now reconsidering donating his brain to science, backing off their decision last week to let his brain be examined for sig…
Ex-NFL Players Sue League for Ignoring Dangers of Concussions
Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Coming on the heels of former San Diego Charger Junior Seau’s suicide, more than 100 former football players filed a lawsuit Thursday that alleges the National Football League (NFL) deliberately misled them ab…
Junior Seau’s Death: Is There a Brain Injury Link?
Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The circumstances coming to light about the death of former NFL linebacker Junior Seau may highlight what some doctors see as a growing link between head trauma, mental illness and suicide, a connection that h…
Concussion Symptoms in Children Can Last Up to a Year
Dorling Kindersley RF/Thinkstock(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Concussion symptoms in children could last much longer than you think. Study findings, published Monday in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, show that some children who suffe…
Hockey Hits Can Lead to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) — Hits and checks have long been accepted as inherent to the game of hockey, but a decision by the NHL’s biggest star to sit out of the game indefinitely represents only the latest professional athlete to suffer la…